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Dame Julia Myra Hess, DBE (25 February 1890 – 25 November 1965) was an English pianist best known for her performances of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schumann.

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NOVEMBER 25: Myra Hess (1890-1965)

The English composer and pianist Myra Hess passed away on this day in 1965. Although her lesbianism has often been shrouded by the history books, she is most well-known today for her “blackout concerts” performed during the London Blitz.

Myra Hess photographed playing Mendelssohn (x).

Myra Hess was born on February 25, 1890 in Kilburn, London. She was the youngest of 4 children born into the Hess’s Jewish middle-class home and she began taking music lessons at the young age of 5. Two years later, she would begin her formal education at The Guildhall School of Music. She eventually went on to study at The Royal Academy of Music, debuting in 1907 with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, she toured Europe and found special success in America as an ensemble player for many major jazz bands of the day.

Her legacy was cemented just weeks after the beginning of the Second World War. Due to the London Blitz, all the concert halls in the city were put on blackout so as to avoid being targets for German bombers. Myra found a way around this by putting on what she called lunchtime concerts – performances that were put on in the concert halls during the day rather than at the traditional time of the evening. Over the course of six years, Myra put on over 2,000 lunchtime concerts for the people of London.

Myra remained unmarried throughout her life and maintained close relationships with other openly lesbian composers and musicians of her day such as Maude Valerie White and Irene Scharrer. With that said, little is known about the truth of Myra’s sexuality. Most historians accept the fact of her “intense relationships with women,” and yet are reluctant to label her as a lesbian historical figure. However, whichever label Myra would have chosen for herself if she were living in contemporary times, it is undeniable that by the time of her death on November 25, 1965, she had lived a life as a “woman identified woman.”  

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“Narrative accounts of the Blitz are filled with stories of bravery and endurance, sometimes to the point of hyperbole. Yet as the historian Francis Sheppard has noted, 'despite the sometimes unpalatable myths and legends in which the Blitz has become enshrouded, metropolitan defiance and tenacity were fundamental to the ultimate outcome of the war.' For Myra Hess, music was the greatest act of defiance. I often have to remind myself, when the world seems on the brink of yet another horror, that music is not a luxury, an afterthought to a busy day, a thing to indulge in while donning fancy dress, but rather something constant, necessary, essential, and alive.”—Sudip Bose, Measure by Measure 

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