Ellen Dickson
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Ellen Dickson

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Gender:
Female
Places:
United Kingdom
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Work field:
Music
Birth:
1819
Death:
4 July 1878
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Ellen Dickson (1819 – 4 July 1878) was an English composer who also used the pseudonym Dolores Dickson. She was born in Woolwich, England and died in Lyndhurst, England.

Works

Dickson composed mainly parlor music. Selected works include:

  • Good night, beloved (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  • Old clock on the stairs (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  • The bridge (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  • The brook (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
  • The open window (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
  • Turn, fortune, turn (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
  • Vivien's song (Text: Lord Alfred Tennyson)
  • Bowers, Jane; Tick, Judith (1987). Women making music: the Western art tradition, 1150-1950.