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Biography
Helen Sinclair Glatz née Hunter (13 March 1908–15 June 1996) was an English composer.
Life
Helen Sinclair Hunter was born in the English border country of Scottish ancestry and grew up in a musical home. She studied music with William Gillies Whittaker at Armstrong College, Durham University, and with Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gordon Jacob and Sir Charles Groves at the Royal College of Music.
Hunter became the first woman composer to receive the Royal College of Music's Albert Medal for Composition, and won a scholarship to Hungary to study with Zoltán Kodály and composer Sándor Végh. She later studied percussion with James Blades at Dartington.
Hunter married linguist Wolf Glatz in Hungary and remained during World War II until he could secure passage out of the country. The couple settled in South Devon in 1949, where Helen Glatz took a teaching position at St. Timothy's School in Dawlish. She also taught at Dartington College of Arts in Totnes, and worked as a rehearsal pianist for ballets. She had one son, and died in Totnes, Devon.
Works
Helen Glatz composed chamber and brass ensemble music, solo pieces and theatre music. Selected works include:
- A Brass Fanfare, 1967
- Elegy for Violin and Strings, 1993
- Two Hungarian Folksongs arranged for Flute and Guitar, 1987
- Soccer for solo double bass