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First name: Nicola
Last name: LeFanu
Dates: 1947
Category: Quartet
Nationality: British
Opus name: Miniature and Canon
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Peculiarities: http://www.nicolalefanu.com/resources/programmenotes/note-miniatureandcanon.pdf http://www.edhughes.org.uk/menu/display/MOG1RD42468 http://maurice.bgsu.edu/search~S0?/Xd:(piano+quartets)&SORT=D/Xd:(piano+quartets)&SORT=D&SUBKE
Information: Composer website: http://www.nicolalefanu.com/ From Wikipedia Nicola LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director. Nicola LeFanu was born in England to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy). She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship. She later became Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School (1975–77), taught at King's College London (1977-1995, as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor), and then a Professor of Music at the University of York where she was Head of Department from 1994 to 2001. She retired from teaching in 2008. She is married to the composer David Lumsdaine. She earned a Doctorate in Music from the University of London in 1988 and holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Durham and Aberdeen and from the Open University. She is active in many aspects of the musical profession, as composer, teacher and director.