Ruby Claudia Davy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian musician and composer
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Place of Birth: Salisbury, South Australia, Australia
About Ruby Claudia Davy
- Ruby Claudia Emily Davy (22 November 1883 – 12 July 1949) was an Australian pianist, composer and educator.
- She was the first woman in Australia to receive a DMus degree.The daughter of William Charles Davy, a shoemaker and musician, and Louisa Jane Litchfield, a singer and music teacher, she was born in Salisbury, South Australia.
- Davy received a BMus and MMus from the Elder Conservatorium of Music.
- She also earned a diploma in elocution from the London College of Music.
- She became a fellow of Trinity College London in 1921, the first woman outside of Britain to receive that honour.In 1912, she taught theory and counterpoint as a temporary replacement at the Conservatorium.
- She moved to Prospect with her parents in 1920; Davy and her mother taught music there.
- After her parents died in 1929, she suffered a nervous breakdown and abandoned music and teaching for four years.
- She moved to Melbourne in 1934.
- In the same year, she began giving lecture recitals on the radio and to various organisations there.
- She toured England, Europe, Canada and the United States in 1939.
- In 1941, she founded the Society of Women Musicians of Australia.She composed Australia Fair And Free for voices and orchestra, which was performed in 1936 in Adelaide.Davy underwent a mastectomy in 1947 and died at home in Melbourne two years later; she was buried in the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide.The Dr Ruby Davy prize for composition is awarded annually by the University of Adelaide.Rita M.
- Wilson's biography entitled "Ruby Davy: academic and artiste: a biography of Dr.
- Ruby Davy: Australia's first woman Doctor of Music." was published by the Salisbury and District Historical Society, South Australia, in 1995.
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