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Adela Maddison

British composer of operas, ballets

Born on: December 15, 1862
Died on: June 12, 1929
Aged: 66 years 179 days (797 months)
Birth Sign: Sagittarius

 

Adela Maddison

Katharine Mary Adela Maddison, née Tindal, usually known as Adela Maddison, was a British composer of operas, ballets, instrumental music and songs.

She was also a concert producer. She composed a number of French songs in the style of mélodies; for some years she lived in Paris, where she was a pupil, friend and possibly lover of Gabriel Fauré.

Subsequently, living in Berlin, she composed a German opera which was staged in Leipzig. On returning to England she created works for Rutland Boughton's Glastonbury Festivals.


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