Madeleine Winefride Isabelle Dring (7 September 1923 – 26 March 1977) was an English composer, pianist, singer and actress. Her main influences were her first favourite composer, Sergei Rachmaninov, Francis Poulenc, and jazz-adjacent works by people such as George Gershwin and Cole Porter. A number of her vocal pieces were re-published in the 1990s by Thames Publishing as a number of ‘Dring Volumes’. Many of her original scores are located at Royal College of Music, London, where she studied with Herbert Howells and, occasionally, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Dring was also an actress and was known to have a great sense of humour, writing of herself when asked to present a biography:

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“Madeleine Dring was born on the moon and can therefore claim to be a pure-bred lunatic. Arriving on a speck of cosmic dust she came face to face with the human race and has never really recovered”

— Madeleine Dring

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