Muriel Foster
Muriel Foster (22 November 1877 – 23 December 1937) was an English
Muriel Foster was born in
She was a personal friend of Elgar and sang in the first performance of his Coronation Ode of 1902; The Apostles (1903); The Kingdom (1906); "The River" (1910) and The Music Makers (1912). Elgar dedicated his song "A Child Asleep" to Muriel Foster's son Anthony Goetz 'for his mother's singing'. In January 1914 she sang at a Royal Philharmonic concert the aria 'Aus der Tiefe des Grames' from Achilleus by Max Bruch, under the baton of Willem Mengelberg, and achieved the distinction of the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society.[2]
She also performed in lieder recitals, her regular accompanist being Anthony Bernard.
Muriel Foster performed regularly in London and the provinces, as well as in Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and the USA. She had a command of a number of languages.
In 1906 she married Ludovic Goetz, and later both changed their surname to Foster.[1]
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Charles Villiers Stanford wrote about her
- "She has not got the whopping voice of Clara Butt, but she has more poetry and is musical to her fingertips" [3]
References
Miss Muriel Foster [1] The Musical Times, Vol. 45, No. 733 (1 March 1904), pp. 153–155
- Young, Percy M. (1973). Elgar O.M.: a study of a musician. London: Collins. OCLC 869820.