Winifred Copperwheat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English classical viola player and teacher
Date of Birth: 10-Oct-1905
Place of Birth: Fulham, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 23-Feb-1976
Profession: musician
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Winifred Copperwheat
- Winifred May Copperwheat (10 October 1905 – 23 February 1976) was an English classical viola player and teacher.She studied under English violist Lionel Tertis at the Royal Academy of Music.
- Tertis later said after one of her recitals, that she had "played like an angel".As soloist, she gave the premiere performances of several works, including: Theodore Holland, Ellingham Marshes for viola and orchestra; with the London Symphony Orchestra under Henry Wood at The Proms in 1940 Theodore Holland, a composition for viola and piano; with Iris Greep, 1941 Priaulx Rainier, Viola Sonata; with Antony Hopkins (piano) at the National Gallery, London in 1946 Frank Stiles, Four Pieces for Solo Viola (1959), composed for her Frank Stiles, Viola Concerto No.
- 1, composed for and dedicated to her (1955, first performance 1962) She played in several chamber music combinations; including the Zorian String Quartet, of which she was a founding member.
- She participated in several premiere performances and recordings by the Zorian Quartet. For many years, she taught viola at the Royal Academy of Music.
- In 1971, she pointed out to musicologist and violist Martin Jarvis, one of her students, some problems with the published editions of the Bach cello suites.
- That observation eventually led to his hypothesis that they had been composed by Anna Magdalena Bach and not, as commonly supposed, by her husband Johann Sebastian Bach.She wrote a book designed for beginning viola students, The First-Year Viola Method.Her name is inscribed in the Book of Remembrance in the Musicians' Chapel at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, London.
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