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Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 1897 – 25 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK. She was noted for her performances of French works, many of them new to Britain, for giving the world premieres of Benjamin Britten's orchestral song cycles Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Les Illuminations (1940), and for encouraging other composers to set English and French texts. Among those who wrote for her were Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne and Mátyás Seiber.

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  • Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 1897 – 25 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK. She was noted for her performances of French works, many of them new to Britain, for giving the world premieres of Benjamin Britten's orchestral song cycles Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Les Illuminations (1940), and for encouraging other composers to set English and French texts. Among those who wrote for her were Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne and Mátyás Seiber. (en)
  • Sophie Adele Wyss (La Neuveville, 5 luglio 1897 – Bognor Regis, 25 dicembre 1983) è stata un soprano svizzero. Fece carriera come cantante sia alla radio che nei concerti nel Regno Unito ed era famosa per le sue interpretazioni di opere francesi, molte delle quali nuove per la Gran Bretagna, e per aver eseguito in anteprima mondiale i cicli musicali orchestrali di Benjamin Britten Our Hunting Fathers (1936) e Les Illuminations (1940) e per aver incoraggiato altri compositori a scrivere nuovi lavori basandosi su testi inglesi e francesi. Tra quelli che hanno scritto per lei c'erano Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne e Mátyás Seiber. (it)
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  • Sophie Adele Wyss (5 July 1897 – 25 December 1983) was a Swiss soprano who made her career as a concert singer and broadcaster in the UK. She was noted for her performances of French works, many of them new to Britain, for giving the world premieres of Benjamin Britten's orchestral song cycles Our Hunting Fathers (1936) and Les Illuminations (1940), and for encouraging other composers to set English and French texts. Among those who wrote for her were Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne and Mátyás Seiber. (en)
  • Sophie Adele Wyss (La Neuveville, 5 luglio 1897 – Bognor Regis, 25 dicembre 1983) è stata un soprano svizzero. Fece carriera come cantante sia alla radio che nei concerti nel Regno Unito ed era famosa per le sue interpretazioni di opere francesi, molte delle quali nuove per la Gran Bretagna, e per aver eseguito in anteprima mondiale i cicli musicali orchestrali di Benjamin Britten Our Hunting Fathers (1936) e Les Illuminations (1940) e per aver incoraggiato altri compositori a scrivere nuovi lavori basandosi su testi inglesi e francesi. Tra quelli che hanno scritto per lei c'erano Lennox Berkeley, Arnold Cooke, Roberto Gerhard, Elizabeth Maconchy, Peter Racine Fricker, Alan Rawsthorne e Mátyás Seiber. (it)
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