Ivy Priaulx Rainier was a South African-British composer.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,218 |
18 Facts About Priaulx Rainier
2.
Priaulx Rainier never adopted 12-tone or serial techniques, but her music shows a profound understanding of that musical language.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,219 |
3.
Priaulx Rainier can be credited with the first truly athematic works composed in England.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,220 |
4.
Priaulx Rainier was born in 1903 in Howick, Colony of Natal, to a father of Huguenot descent and an English mother.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,221 |
5.
Priaulx Rainier studied the violin at the South African College of Music in Cape Town after her family moved there when she was aged 10, but moved permanently to London at the age of 17, in 1920, when she took up a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,222 |
Related searches
England Huguenot Royal Academy Cape Town London Music Sir John Bristol Nadia Boulanger Paris Ben Nicholson France Tate6.
Priaulx Rainier studied there with Rowsby Woof and Sir John Blackwood McEwen.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,223 |
7.
Priaulx Rainier taught at Badminton School, Bristol, and played violin in a string quartet.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,224 |
8.
Priaulx Rainier had encouragement as a composer from Arnold Bax, and in 1937 studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris but considered herself essentially self-taught.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,225 |
9.
Priaulx Rainier's first acknowledged work was Three Greek Epigrams for voice and piano.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,226 |
10.
Priaulx Rainier often used ostinato-like repetition and alternation in her works, often of a percussive character.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,227 |
11.
Priaulx Rainier's students included Nigel Butterley, Jeremy Dale Roberts, Rachel Cavalho, and Christopher Small.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,228 |
12.
Priaulx Rainier remained a close friend of Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,229 |
13.
Priaulx Rainier claimed that only sculptors and architects fully understood her music.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,230 |
14.
Menuhin described Priaulx Rainier as "having a musical imagination of a colour and variety scarcely to be believed".
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,231 |
16.
Priaulx Rainier was a passionate gardener and ecologist who helped design, and planted the exotic plants in, Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Garden in StIves.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,233 |
17.
Priaulx Rainier died on 10 October 1986 at Besse-en-Chandesse in France, aged 83.
| FactSnippet No. 2,114,234 |