TROUP, Emily Josephine

Josephine Troup was a composer, poet, and editor, who played a leading role in the musical life of South Place (now Conway Hall Ethical Society), and within the early Ethical movement.

She studied at the Royal Academy, London where she subsequently founded a scholarship for female students studying orchestral composition in 1905.

She had an active interest in the Unitarian Church and subsequently the Sunday Evening Concerts in the South Place Chapel, London, where she performed as a violinist forty-nine times between 1889 and 1902. She later joined the Ethical Movement which had evolved from the chapel congregation. She studied music at the Royal Academy, London. She compiled and edited three ethical hymn books which were designed to be uplifting.

Her knowledge of the violin led her to write a few solo and chamber works for the instrument including: Romanza in C for string quartet and, Six sketches for violin and piano. Her most prolific output, however, was for voice. She wrote many songs for solo and for vocal groups as well as the larger scale work "March of the Workers" for soprano, bass solo, chorus and orchestra.