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Freda Swain was born on 31 October, 1902, is a British composer, pianist and music educator (1902 - 1985). Discover Freda Swain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?
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Freda Swain Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Freda Swain worth at the age of 83 years old? Freda Swain’s income source is mostly from being a successful composer. She is from . We have estimated Freda Swain's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Freda Swain (31 October 1902 – 29 January 1985) was a British composer, pianist and music educator.
Freda Swain was born in Portsmouth, England, the daughter of Thomas and Gertrude (née Allen) Swain.
Her first piano lessons (from age 11) were at the Tobias Matthay Piano School in London, given by Matthay's sister Dora.
Swain married Arthur Alexander in 1921, and before World War II the couple toured South Africa and Australia, lecturing, broadcasting and performing recitals.
In 1924 Swain began teaching at the Royal College and in 1936 she founded the British Music Movement to help promote the efforts of young composers and artists.
Her first major success was The Harp of Aengus for violin and orchestra (after the Yeats poem), with soloist Achille Rivarde at the Queen's Hall in January 1925.
The solo Violin Sonata was premiered by May Harrison at the Wigmore Hall on 8 December 1933.
Her ‘Airmail’ Piano Concerto, mailed in instalments to her husband Arthur Alexander while he was stuck in South Africa during World War II, was performed by Alexander in Cape Town.
She composed a one-act opera Second Chance, but left two other operas incomplete.
Piano compositions include three large scale piano sonatas and 40 or so other works for solo piano, including many educational pieces.
There is also a substantial cello sonata, two violin sonatas (one with piano, the other unaccompanied), two string quartets, a piano quartet, a sextet with horn and clarinet, a Suite for Six Trumpets and many other chamber and instrumental pieces.
Swain's surviving manuscripts were handed down to her pupil and friend David Stevens, founder of the Swain-Alexander Trust.
They were both on the founding board of the Surrey College of Music from the mid-1940s.
From 1942 they lived in a bungalow on Chinnor Hill in Oxfordshire.
Dance Forms from an Unknown Country, for flute, oboe, clarinet and piano (1958)
Freda Swain died on 29 January 1985.
Swain wrote some 450 pieces, piano and chamber music as well as many songs, but also opera and orchestral works, including two piano concertos and a clarinet concerto.
Few were performed aside from a series featured in the NEMO Series of concerts that Swain herself founded after the war.
In turn they were passed on to Swiss pianist Timon Altwegg in 2005, who has begun recording the piano works for Toccata Classics.
