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CHAPTER XV |
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SOME PRESENT-DAY WOMEN COMPOSERS
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NE of the most notable features of the art of song-writing in recent years is the large increase in the number of lady composers. Twenty years ago their names could be reckoned on the fingers of one hand ; to-day they present quite a long and imposing array.
Among so many whose names have become household words as composers of popular songs, there is one who enjoys rather an unique distinction, from the fact that she made her name as a public singer before she wooed fame as a songwriter. I refer, of course, to Liza Lehmann, who for nine years filled a prominent place on the concert platform as a soprano singer. She benefited greatly in this capacity from the advice and encouragement of Jenny Lind, who, on hearing her sing as a child, is reported to have said :— " If God gives me the strength, some day I should like to teach that child "—a desire that eventually found its fulfilment.
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