Louisa Emma Lomax 1873-1963

[giles.enders]

Louisa Emma Lomax  Born Brighton  22.6.1873  Died Brighton  29.8.1963

Her initial music studies were at The Brighton School of Music.  From there she went on to study at The Royal Academy in London principally under Frederick Corder.  Corder described her and Morfydd Owen as his most distinguished women composers. 
At some time before 1914 she appears to have given up a promising career in composition to become a music teacher in Brighton, where she remained for the rest of her life.  Early on she seems to have discarded her first name of Louisa. There was some solo piano music which appears lost.  She resided at Park Crescent, Brighton for most of her life and left an estate valued at £4.348. *

Orchestral

"Ida's Flowers"  orchestral suite  1905
"The Ugly Duckling"  orchestral suite 
Ruminations on a Quaint Theme  1910
"Toy Overture"  parody on Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture

Song

Glee for four voices & piano
"The Heart" for mezzo & piano
"But one" for mezzo & piano
"The Wild Ride"  for baritone & piano
"The Message of Victory"  for baritone & piano
"Hymn to the Sun"  for female voices & piano
"The Wind-swept Wheat"  for female voices & piano

Music & Drama

"The House of Shadows"    dramatic phantasy with orchestra  1905   pub. by Avison
"The Wolf"  dramatic sketch with piano accompaniment  1906     pub. by Avison
"The Brownie and the Piano-tuner"   fairy play with orchestra  1907

Recitation with Orchestral Accompaniment

"Bishop Hatto" words by Robert Southey

Recitation with Piano Accompaniment

"The Prince in Disguise"  based on a  Hans Anderson story   pub. by Novello & Co
"The Story of a Mother"  based on a Hans Anderson story
Four Nursery Rhymes  with piano accompaniment

Cantatas

"The Whirlpool"  for soloists, chorus and small orchestra with piano
"The Storm Bird"  for soloists, chorus and small orchestra with piano

Opera

"The Marsh of Vervais"


Her parents were Benjamin & Georgiana Lomax  nee Wybrow

[Gareth Vaughan]

The only work of hers I can find listed on COPAC is "The prince in disguise (Der Schweinehirt)", a copy of which is apparently held in the RAM Library, but the entry gives the publisher as Charles Avison, date c.1908, not Novello.