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Minna Keal (Mina Nerenstein) was born on 22 March, 1909 in London, is a British composer. Discover Minna Keal'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 90 years old?

Popular As Mina Nerenstein
Occupation composer
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 22 March 1909
Birthday 22 March
Birthplace London
Date of death 14 November, 1999
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1909

Minna Keal, née Mina Nerenstein (22 March 1909 – 14 November 1999) was a British composer.

After early compositions as a student, she only returned to composing at the end of her life.

1926

Her father died in 1926.

1928

In 1928 she entered the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition with William Alwyn.

Student compositions included chamber works performed at the Academy, Whitechapel Gallery and Alexandra Palace.

According to her obituary, she had a promising start to a musical career.

1929

Among her student works which have survived are a Fantasie in C minor for violin and piano, a Ballade in F minor for viola and piano (first performed in 1929 by Philip Burton of the Griller Quartet) and Three Summer Sketches for piano.

These early works are particularly passionate and full of rich harmonies and vibrant melodies.

In 1929, aged 20, she was forced to give up her musical study to help her mother in the family business.

She married Barnett Samuel, a solicitor, had a son, Raphael (later a well-known Marxist historian), and gave up composing.

On the same record is her Ballade (1929) for cello and piano, in which Alexander Baillie is accompanied by pianist Martina Baillie.

1930

During the 1930s she was active in left-wing politics, and joined the British Communist Party in 1939.

When the Anschluss occurred, she began working with local citizenry to help evacuate Jewish children who were being transported to Britain from Nazi occupied territories.

On the break-up of her first marriage during World War II Mina worked in an aircraft factory near Slough.

1959

There, she met Bill Keal, and they eventually married in 1959.

1975

In 1975 the composer Justin Connolly, having stumbled across some of Keal's youthful music archived at the Royal Academy of Music, encouraged her to start composing again, and she took composition lessons with him.

1978

Her String Quartet, Op. 1, was completed in 1978 and first performed in 1989.

1980

The Wind Quintet, Op. 2, followed in 1980.

1982

After taking lessons with Oliver Knussen in 1982, she completed her four-movement Symphony, Op. 3, which was performed as a BBC broadcast in 1988 and at the BBC Proms in 1989.

1988

Cantillation for violin and orchestra, Op. 4, was completed in 1988 and first performed in 1991.

Between 1988 and 1994 she worked on the Cello Concerto, Op. 5, which was subsequently recorded by Alexander Baillie and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins for the NMC label.

1989

Aged 80 when her music was first performed at the Proms in 1989, she experienced her return to composition as a new life:

"I felt I was coming to the end of my life, but now I feel as if I'm just beginning. I feel as if I'm living my life in reverse."

Mina Nerenstein was born in the East End of London, the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants from Belarus who ran a Hebrew bookselling business in Petticoat Lane.

1999

In 1999, "the Royal Academy of Music honoured its former pupil with a 90th birthday concert packed with friends and colleagues celebrating the composer who proved that you're never too old to make an impact."

She died on 14 November 1999.