Ivy Frances Klein (née Salaman; 23 December 1895 – 25 March 1972) was a British composer, pianist, and singer. She is best known for her
settings of
Early Modern and
Romantic poetry.[1][2]
Biography
Ivy Frances Salaman was born in 1895 to
British Jewish parents Edmund Vannutelli Salaman and Edith Bessie Salaman, who were
first cousins. Her father worked in the soap manufacturing industry, and by 1916 served as Vice Chairman of
Hazlehurst & Sons.[3] Her maternal grandfather was composer and pianist
Charles Kensington Salaman.[4]
Salaman studied
harmony and
composition in Liverpool under Arthur Wormald Pollitt from 1912 to 1915, and published her first songs in 1921.[5] In 1923, she began studying composition with
Benjamin Dale at the
Royal Academy of Music, and receiving private
vocal lessons from Anne Thursfield.[4]
Klein, Ivy F.;
Herbert, George (1926). Easter: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Heine, Heinrich; Macnamara, Rachel Swete (1926). The Foolish Lover: Song, Words by R. S. Macnamara, Paraphrased from Heine. London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co.
Klein, Ivy F.; Anon. (1926). A Pedlar: Song with Piano Accompaniment. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Bunyan, John (1926). The Shepherd Boy Sings in the Valley of Humiliation. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Pope, Alexander (1928). Ode on Solitude: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Broome, William (1928). The Rosebud: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Murdoch, Murdoch & Co.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Reese, Lizette W. (1933). A Christmas Folk Song: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Widdemer, Margaret (1933). A Cyprian Woman: Greek Folk Song. London: Elkin & Co.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Church, Richard (1946). Windless Day: Song with Piano Accompaniment. London: J. B. Cramer & Co.
Klein, Ivy F.; Anon. (1948). The Corpus Christi Carol: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Blunden, Edmund (1949). Among the Roses: Song with Pianoforte Accompaniment. London: Augener.
Klein, Ivy F.;
Lord Byron (1952). She Walks in Beauty: For Girls' or Women's Choir in Three Parts, Soprano, Mezzo-soprano and Contralto with Piano or Organ Accompaniment. London: J. B. Cramer & Co.