Marjorie Olive Hayward (14 August 188510 January 1953) was an English violinist and violin teacher, prominent during the first few decades of the 20th century.
Biography
Marjorie Hayward was born in
Greenwich
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in 1885. An "infant prodigy", her violin studies were with
Émile Sauret
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at the
Royal Academy of Music in
London
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(1897–1903), and
Otakar Ševčík
Otakar Ševčík (22 March 185218 January 1934) was a Czech violinist and influential teacher. He was known as a soloist and an ensemble player, including his occasional performances with Eugène Ysaÿe.
Biography
Ševčík was born in Horaž ...
in
Prague
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(1903–06).
[Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. IV, p. 211, HAYWARD, Marjorie (Olive)]
She had early successes in the
concerto repertoire, performing in Prague, Berlin (where she played
Ethel Smyth
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Smyth tended t ...
's Concerto for Violin, Horn and Orchestra with
Aubrey Brain), Paris, Amsterdam and the Hague,
[Royal Academy of Music]
/ref> but later focussed mainly on chamber music.
She was the dedicatee of John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland (January 30, 1914 – March 21, 1992) was a Canadian actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in ''All the King's Men'' (1949), making him the first Vancouver-born actor to receive an Oscar nomin ...
's short 1911 piece for violin and piano titled ''Bagatelle''. She and the composer premiered his Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor on 7 March 1913 at a Thomas Dunhill Chamber Concert at Steinway Hall.
She led the English String Quartet (which included Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a m ...
on viola), and later the Virtuoso Quartet
The Virtuoso String Quartet was a British quartet, founded by the Gramophone Company (better known as HMV) in 1924, being the first such quartet established specifically for recording. In effect they displaced the Catterall Quartet from their posi ...
, the first chamber music group formed specifically for making recordings, with Edwin Virgo (2nd violin), Raymond Jeremy
Raymond Jeremy, FRAM, (1890-1969) was a British violist, known for his quartet playing, particularly the first performances of Edward Elgar's String Quartet (Elgar), String Quartet and Piano Quintet (Elgar), Piano Quintet. He was professor of viol ...
(viola) and its founder Cedric Sharpe (cello). The Quartet did not confine itself to recordings but also broadcast and toured frequently, its repertoire extending to quintets with artists such as Harriet Cohen
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, William Murdoch
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Murdoch was employed by the firm of Boulton & Watt and worked for them in Cornwall, as a steam engine erector for ten yea ...
, Arnold Bax
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and Léon Goossens
Léon Jean Goossens, CBE, FRCM (12 June 1897 – 13 February 1988) was an English oboist.
Career
Goossens was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, and studied at Liverpool College of Music and the Royal College of Music. His father was violinist and ...
.
Marjorie Hayward also created her own ensemble, the Marjorie Hayward String Quartet, with Irene Richards (2nd violin), Anatol Mines (viola) and May Mukle
May Henrietta Mukle FRAM (14 May 1880 – 20 February 1963) was a British cellist and composer. She has been described as a "noted feminist cellist", who encouraged other women cellists.
Early life
Mukle was born in London, the daughter of L ...
(cello). And there was the English Ensemble, with May Mukle, Rebecca Clarke (viola), and Kathleen Long
Kathleen (Ida) Long CBE (7 July 189620 March 1968) was an English pianist and teacher.
Life and career
Long was born in Brentford, a suburb of London in the UK. McVeagh, Diana"Long, Kathleen"''Grove Music Online'', Oxford Music Online, accessed ...
(piano). Other groups in which she played a prominent role were the English Ensemble Piano Quartet and the Kamaran Trio. The latter was formed in 1937, with the cellist Antonia Butler and the pianist Kathleen Markwell.
Marjorie Hayward was a frequent face at The Proms
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, playing there 26 times between 1909 and 1944. At a Proms concert on 28 September 1920 she premiered the Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 33 by York Bowen
Edwin York Bowen (22 February 1884 – 23 November 1961) was an English composer and pianist. Bowen's musical career spanned more than fifty years during which time he wrote over 160 works. As well as being a pianist and composer, Bowen was a ...
. Other works she played at the Proms included:
* Bach (Double Concerto; Concerto in E)
* Brahms (Double Concerto)
* Haydn (Concerto No. 4 in G)
* Paul Juon
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*Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
* Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(''Episodes concertantes'', Op. 45)
* Mozart (Concertos Nos. 5, 6)
* Saint-Saëns (Concerto No. 3; Introduction and Rondo capriccioso)
and the concertos by Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
She was a Fellow of the RAM, and became a Professor there in 1924. The RAM's Marjorie Hayward Award is named in her honour.
She married R. G. K. (Rudolf Gustav Karl) Lempfert CBE (b. 1875), Director of the Meteorological Office
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and in 1930–31 President of the Royal Meteorological Society
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. Their daughter, Marjorie Lempfert, studied at the RAM, becoming a distinguished viola player and, like her mother, a professor at the Academy.
Marjorie Hayward died in London on 10 January 1953, aged 67.
Recordings
There are many recordings of Marjorie Hayward's playing:
* abridged versions of Beethoven
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's "Kreutzer" Sonata, and the Franck and the Elgar
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sonatas, with Una Bourne[Naxos]
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* sonatas by Mozart (K. 378) and Grieg (No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45)
* Purcell, Sonata in G minor, Z. 780, with Madame Adami
* Mozart: Violin Sonata, K.378, 1. Allegro
* a series of Lecture Illustrations with Sir Walford Davies
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* Franck, String Quartet, Virtuoso String Quartet
* Saint-Saëns, Piano Quartet in B flat, Op.41 – Scherzo (with Mark Hambourg
Mark Hambourg (russian: Марк Михайлович Гамбург, 1 June 1879 – 26 August 1960) was a Russian British concert pianist.
Life
Mark Hambourg was the eldest son of the pianist Michael Hambourg (1855–1916), a pupil o ...
, piano; Frank Bridge
Frank Bridge (26 February 187910 January 1941) was an English composer, violist and conductor.
Life
Bridge was born in Brighton, the ninth child of William Henry Bridge (1845-1928), a violin teacher and variety theatre conductor, formerly a m ...
, viola; C. Warwick-Evans, cello)
* Beethoven, E flat Quartet, Op.127, Virtuoso Quartet
* Dittersdorf, Minuet in E flat
* Mozart, "L'amerò, sarò costante", from ''Il re pastore
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'', with Elisabeth Schumann
Elisabeth Schumann (13 June 1888 – 23 April 1952) was a German soprano who sang in opera, operetta, oratorio, and lieder. She left a substantial legacy of recordings.
Career
Born in Merseburg, Schumann trained for a singing career in B ...
* There were also recordings of shorter works by Braga, D'Ambrosio, Fibich, Hubay, Kennedy-Fraser, Marcello, Mendelssohn, Poldini, Raff, Schumann, Simonetti, Stean, Tchaikovsky and Thomé.CHARM
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She can be heard in the following YouTube links:
* with Madame Adami
* (heavily abridged; with Una Bourne)
*
*
* , accompanying Elsie Suddaby
Elsie Suddaby (1893 - 1980) was a British lyric soprano during the years between World War I and World War II. She was born in Leeds, a first cousin once removed to the organist and composer, Francis Jackson.
A pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow, she ...
, with Reginald Paul, piano
* , Virtuoso String Quartet, with John Cockerell, harp; Robert Murchie, flute; Charles Draper, clarinet
*
References
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1885 births
1953 deaths
English classical violinists
Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music
Academics of the Royal Academy of Music
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Music
Violin pedagogues
Women classical violinists
20th-century English women musicians
Women music educators
20th-century classical violinists