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Marie Foxon

Marie Foxon
Marie Foxon
	Portrait of Marie Foxon, musician and teacher Marie Foxon
Born	26 September 1861; Pitsmoor, Sheffield, England
Died	9 May 1943 (aged 81); Sheffield, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Musician and teacher
Known for	Morale boosting concerts for civilians in World War One

Marie Foxon (1861- 1943) was a professional music teacher^[1] who organised morale-boosting concerts for civilians during the First World War in her native Sheffield

Early Life

Marie Foxon was born in Pitsmoor, Sheffield. Methodist upbringing and performed at Chapel. She trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and returned to Sheffield to spend her life teaching and organising concerts

First World War

Text^[2] A series of "Five O'Clock Concerts" held in Albert Hall

Inter-War Years

An appreciation. The decline in demand for music teaching. Last of "Five O'Clock Concerts". Social change move from music

Second World War

Death

Obituary

"Her devotion to the art and her expansive and gracious personality made a deep impression on the lives of the immense number of pupils who came to her from the North of England and the Midlands" ^[3]

References

^ Mackerness, E.D. (1974). Somewhere Further North: A History of Music in Sheffield. Sheffield, England: The University of Sheffield. pp. 103–110.
^ Marie Foxon: an appreciation, by Gertrude M Ward, Sheffield: J. W. Northend Ltd., 1944
^ "Marie Foxon." The Musical Times 84, no. 1204 (1943): 192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/920916.

[1] Mackerness, E.D. (1974). Somewhere Further North: A History of Music in Sheffield. Sheffield, England: The University of Sheffield. pp. 103–110.

[2] Marie Foxon: an appreciation, by Gertrude M Ward, Sheffield: J. W. Northend Ltd., 1944

[3] "Marie Foxon." The Musical Times 84, no. 1204 (1943): 192. http://www.jstor.org/stable/920916.

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