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Nicola LeFanu
Nicola Frances LeFanu (born 28 April 1947) is a British composer, academic, lecturer and director.
Life.
Nicola LeFanu was born in Wickham Bishops, Essex, England, to William LeFanu and Elizabeth Maconchy (also a composer, later Dame Elizabeth Maconchy). She studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford, before taking up a Harkness Fellowship at Harvard. In 1972 she won the Mendelssohn Scholarship. She later became Director of Music at St Paul's Girls' School (1975–77),
: Elizabeth Anna LeFanu (born 1939) and Nicola LeFanu (born 1947).
In 1932, Maconchy developed tuberculosis and she moved with her family from London to Kent.
She returned to Ireland in 1939, living in Dublin for a brief period, during which she composed her Fifth String Quartet, which some critics consider her greatest achievement, and gave birth to a daughter.
Maconchy did much to improve the conditions of composers, being elected Chair of the Composers Guild of Great Britain in 1959, a position