About Christabel Baxendale
Lived 1886 – 1953 (aged 66–67). Christabel Baxendale was a British composer and violinist.
Florence Christabel Baxendale (28 December 1886 – 1977) was an English violinist and composer "of considerable talent". She was active in the early 1900s until at least 1921 and gave concerts in the London area, sometimes with her older sister, Kathleen Baxendale, who was a soprano opera singer.
Baxendale was born 28 December 1886. In 1939, she was a music teacher in Uckfield, Sussex.
Baxendale died in 1977 in Bournemouth, aged 90.
Works Baxendale composed mostly popular songs. Selected works include: That Merry, Merry May (setting of a poem by Gerald Massey) Plaintive Melody for violin or viola and piano (1951) Two little Eyes of blue You Came To Me
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English violinist and composer
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Christabel Baxendale was born in 1886 in Limerick.
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Christabel Baxendale died in 1953 in Bournemouth.
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