• Title
  Adelina de Lara, concert pianist - portrait, 1900 / Talma Studios, 374 George Street, Sydney and at 114 Swanston Street, Melbourne
• Creator
  Talma & Co.
• Call number
  P1/461
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1900
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  447435
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 Paris panel - image 19.4 x 13.4 cm. , on mount 25.2 x 17.6 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Adelina de Lara was born in Carlisle on 23 January 1872 and was 89 when she died in Woking on 25 November 1961. Educated in Frankfurt she studied the piano with Fanny Davies (1885) and Clara Schumann (1886-91) and during her studies became close friends with Johannes Brahms. Her debut took place at the St James Hall in 1891 and she played in public for over sixty years thereafter. As an example, she played the Schumann Concerto with the Halle Orchestra in 1897 and broadcast it in 1945. She played at the National Gallery for Myra Hess during the Second War, organised War Fund concerts in both wars and broadcast frequently, appearing on BBC television on her 82nd birthday.
  She was awarded the OBE in 1951 and counted Sir Adrian Boult and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother amongst her friends. She recorded copiously, mainly Schumann, and published her autobiography Finale in 1955. Her compositions included many ballads, two song cycles, much for piano including two concertos and two suites for string orchestra, including 'In The Forest'. -- from the official Adelina de Lara website
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/De Lara, Adelina (BM), January 2010
  Digital order no:a4214061
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamps
  "To Mr Marr-Thompson in / remembrance of / Adelina de Lara / Kingston / N.S.W. / Nov. 4th 1900" -- signature on lower edges of mount
  "Adelina De Lara" / Celebrated Pianist / visited Sydney, wife of Thomas Kingston / leading actor / 1900 /&c &c" -- in ink in Marr thompson's hand on the upper edge of the mount
• Name
  De Lara, Adelina
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  pianists
  portraits
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1661209

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