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Geraldine Thomson Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer. She was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She married the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, son of the painter Alphonse Mucha, and in 1945 moved to Prague. She lived there for the greater part of the next sixty years.
Geraldine Mucha was born in London on the 5th July 1917. Her father, Marcus Thomson, was a popular Scottish concert baritone and a professor of singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her mother enjoyed success as a singing-actress and appeared in several notable London musical productions.
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Geraldine Mucha. Geraldine Mucha was born in London on the 5th July 1917. She was fortunate to belong to a family with a strong musical background. The precocious Mucha was able to read music long before she could read words.
Geraldine Thomson Mucha (5 July 1917 – 12 October 2012) was a Scottish composer. She was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She married the Czech writer Jiří Mucha, son of the painter Alphonse Mucha, and in 1945 moved to Prague.
There was whisky and Scottish-dancing, presided over by this amazingly complete, vital woman. She died ten years later, only two weeks after her ninety-fifth-birthday concert of orchestral works, which was recorded on DVD, along with an extensive interview. These are the barest bones of her life.
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Geraldine Mucha’s remarkable compositions breathe the Middle European 20-th century style of Janácek and Bartók: strong rhythms, often reminiscent of folk music, accentuate a late-romantic melodic idiom.
