Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (1912–1990)

Australian composer. In 1938 her choral suite was performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in London, England.

She studied at the Melbourne Conservatory and from the age of 19 under Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gordon Jacob, and Reginald Morris at the Royal College of Music in London. She won a scholarship in 1932 and another in 1935, which enabled her to travel and to study further with Egon Wellesz in Vienna, Austria, and Nadia Boulanger in Paris, France. In 1939 she married the composer Stanley Bate, with whom she went to the USA, living in New York until 1958 and Greece from 1959.

Works Opera Caedmon (1934), The Transposed Heads (1953), The Glittering Gate (1959), Nausicaa (1961), Sappho (1963).

Orchestral Sinfonietta, Prelude, and Scherzo, Span, Suite, and Music for Robots for orchestra; piano concerto, flute concerto.

Vocal choral suite (Fletcher) for women's voices, oboe, and strings; six Housman songs.

Chamber Concertino da camera for flute, clarinet, bassoon, and piano.