Maud Emily Marshall 1868-1951

[giles.enders]

Maud Emily Marshall nee Breffit. Born Stoke Newington, London 5.8.1868  Died Kensington, London 30.10.1951

Born into a wealthy family, her father was a banker and ratal. She married Stewart Marshall and they had three children1.
She won a Cobbett prize for her piano trio.

Orchestral

Piano Concerto in A major

Chamber

Phantasy piano trio
String Quartet
String Quartet
Violin Sonata in B minor
Violin Sonata in G minor
Reverie for violin and piano  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd.
Mazurka for violin and piano  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd

Piano

Fantasiestuck  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd 1908
Scherzo Valse  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd
Valse in E flat  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd 
Hide & Seek  pub. by J Curwen  1923
The Little Dancer  pub. by J Curwen  1923
A Thought  pub. by J Curwen
A Second Thought  pub. by J Curwen
Three Sketches  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd
Short Piano Pieces in progressive order  Four vols.  pub. by Lengnick & Co.
Great works for small hands  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd
Andante for two pianos  pub. by Rogers Ltd 1912
Minuet and Trio for two pianos pub. by Rogers Ltd
Dancing Class  piano duet  pub. by OUP  1925
Messengers of Spring  pub. by OUP 1937


Song

A Song of May  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd
A Song at Dawn  pub. by Joseph Williams Ltd.
Baby Seed  words by E Nesbit  pub. by Chappell  1920

Musical Monologue

A Cherub  words by E Sharp  pub. by Reynolds & Co.
The Garden of the Blind  words by B Hern-Maxwell  pub. by Reynolds & Co.1922

Wordless Play
'Bluebeard'  a wordless play  pub. by J Curwen  1925


Stewart Ray Marshall

              1.
              Stewart R. Marshall
Helen R. Marshall
Evelyn Marshall



Born at 6 Park Crescent, Stoke Newington Church Street


Matrimonial home. 2 Green Lane, Northwood, Middlesex

Died at 95 Iverna Court, Kensington.
Parents had 4 live in servants

[Gareth Vaughan]

What is a "ratal"?

[giles.enders]

It is a person who assesses the amount of tax to be paid on ratable value of a property.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Thanks, Giles. I had never come across the word before.

[Mark Thomas]

"Word of the day" for me too.

[edurban]

What is a "wordless play"?

[FBerwald]

Has anyone seen the manuscript... What's the standard of the music in general? The piano concerto for example?

[Gareth Vaughan]

I would presume that a "wordless" play is perhaps a play in mime - like Thornton Wilder's "Our Town".

[cypressdome]

What is the source for the claim that her trio won a Cobbett prize?  When researching the Cobbett competitions to fill in the page at IMSLP I never ran across her name.  Is it possible that the trio was actually commissioned by W.W. Cobbett?  Some sources claim that Dorothy Howell's Phantasy for Violin and Piano was a Cobbett prize winner when it was in fact a Cobbett commission.  Thanks!

[giles.enders]

In answer to cypressdome; Marshall's Cobbett prize. I refer him to the second edition of Cobbett's published in 1963.  It states that she was awarded a supplementary prize in 1920 for her Phantasy Piano Trio.

[Gareth Vaughan]

I am assuming the piano concerto was unpublished. I wonder if the MS has survived.