Rhoda Sinclair Coghill was an Irish pianist, composer and poet.
11 Facts About Rhoda Coghill
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Rhoda Coghill was born in Dublin and studied from the age of eight with Patricia Read at the Leinster School of Music.
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Rhoda Coghill continued her piano studies with Arthur Schnabel in Berlin to whom she had been recommended by Fritz Brase.
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Rhoda Coghill was known for remarkable sight-reading capacities and her absolute ear.
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Rhoda Coghill appeared as a concerto soloist, reliably attracting large audiences.
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Rhoda Coghill stopped composing in the early 1940s, concentrating on her performing career, but began writing and translating poetry.
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Rhoda Coghill remained unmarried and spent her late years from 1982 at Westfield House, Morehampton Road, Dublin, where she died aged 96.
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Up to this time, Rhoda Coghill had never heard an orchestra, but had a good knowledge of orchestral music from studying scores.
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Rhoda Coghill's songs show a sensitive and skilled hand in setting words, be it in folksong arrangements or in original compositions.
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Rhoda Coghill's only published piano composition, the Gaelic Phantasy, plays with elements of Irish traditional music in an original manner.
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Rhoda Coghill was represented in the first Field Day anthology of Irish women writers.