Ruth Dorothy Louisa ("Wid") GippsMBE[1] (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was an English composer, oboist, pianist, conductor and educator. She composed music in a wide range of genres, including five symphonies, seven concertos and many chamber and choral works.[2] She founded both the London Repertoire Orchestra and the Chanticleer Orchestra and served as conductor and music director for the City of Birmingham Choir.[3] Later in her life she served as chairwoman of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.[4]
She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1981 Birthday Honours for services to music.[5]
^Foreman, Lewis (2 March 1999). "Obituary: Ruth Gipps". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
^Halstead, Jill (2006). Ruth Gipps: Anti-Modernism, Nationalism and Difference in English Music. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-0178-4. Archived from the original on 30 August 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
the violin. RuthGipps had two elder siblings, Ernest Bryan (1910–2001), a violinist, and Laura (1908–1962), also a musician. The Gipps family had Kent...
historian RuthGipps (1921–1999), British composer Tommy Gipps (1888–?), English footballer The dictionary definition of Gipps at Wiktionary Simon Gipps-Kent...
became interested in Renaissance music. Studying music theory with Dr RuthGipps, she also specialised in the performance of 20th century music, premiering...
for piano and orchestra by Learmont Drysdale in the 1890s, and in 1939 RuthGipps set the poem to music for clarinet and piano. The poet John Leyden, was...
English libretto adapted by M.C. Gillington, and a German translation. RuthGipps composed the cantata Goblin Market in 1954, the first female composer...
Eliot's "The Waste Land". "Ambarvalia" is an orchestral composition by RuthGipps from 1988. It was first recorded in 2019 by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic...
of available works. In 1967 the organisation, under the direction of RuthGipps, established the British Music Information Centre. In 1999, The Association...
This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems. En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903) Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem...
and oboist RuthGipps. Inspired in part by Arthur Dennington's Modern Symphony Orchestra (which had given the premiere performance of Gipps' Oboe Concerto...
Prize in Music & Dance "Classical home listening: Germaine Tailleferre; RuthGipps". the Guardian. 2022-04-09. Retrieved 2022-11-21. Heel, Kiri L. (2011)...
compositions including major works composed by the orchestra's oboist RuthGipps, and September 1946 brought Samuel Barber to Birmingham to conduct his...
(1920–1998) Peter Racine Fricker (1920–1990) Malcolm Arnold (1921–2006) RuthGipps (1921–1999) Robert Simpson (1921–1997) Peter Wishart (1921–1984) Raffaello...
Gibbons (1583–1625) Armstrong Gibbs (1889–1960) Anthony Gilbert (born 1934) RuthGipps (1921–1999) Alexander Goehr (born 1932) Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996)...
February 25, 1976, Boston, US Foreman, Lewis (2 March 1999). "Obituary: RuthGipps". The Independent. Retrieved 18 January 2016. "A Rollicking Treat Infused...
symphonies in B major includes: Robert Farnon Symphony in B "Ottawa" (1943) RuthGipps Symphony No. 2 Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 46 (1772) Jef van Hoof Symphony...
British premieres after only a few years of existence. The Oboe Concerto by RuthGipps, for example, received its world premiere by the Modern Symphony Orchestra...
Bert Gassman (1911–2004), American Fernand Gillet (1882–1980), French RuthGipps (1921–1999), British (composer) Albert Goltzer (1918–2007), American Harold...
in 2003. Pub. ca. 1870.) Piano Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 47 (1883) RuthGipps Brocade, Op. 17 (1941) Hermann Goetz Piano quartet in E major Op. 6 (1867)...
symphony Fritz Geißler (1921–1984), German composer, wrote 11 symphonies RuthGipps (1921–1999), British composer of 5 symphonies Karel Husa (1921–2016),...
ashes were scattered on the mill pond.[citation needed]. The composer, RuthGipps lived, in later years, at Tickerage Castle, now a large detached house...
Umberto Giordano (1867–1948) Giovanni Giorgi (fl. from 1719; d. 1762) RuthGipps (1921–1999) Janice Giteck (born 1946) Mauro Giuliani (1781–1828) Lodovico...
Stanley Dance, 88, British jazz writer and record producer, pneumonia. RuthGipps, 78, English composer, oboist, pianist, and conductor. Hughie Lee-Smith...
and Edmund Rubbra, who sought to evolve and further develop the style. RuthGipps was another composer of the second half of the twentieth century whose...
1978 Reached number 1 in 1976 Malcolm Arnold - Variations on a Theme of RuthGipps for Orchestra, Op. 122 John Buller – Proença for mezzo-soprano, electric...
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