{{Short description|British composer, inventor, pianist and philanthropist}} {{use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} '''Jane Jackson Roeckel''' (19 October 1833 – 26 August 1907)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jane Röckel, Composer - Biography on Operabase |url=https://www.operabase.com/jane-rockel-a2218655/bio/en |access-date=2024-05-18 |website=Operabase}}</ref> was a British composer, inventor, pianist, and philanthropist. She composed songs and works for piano<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elson |first=Arthur |title=Women's Work in Music |publisher=L. C. Page & Company |year=1903 |location=Boston |publication-date=1903 |page=248}}</ref> and piano rolls, including piano transcriptions of symphonies by composers such as Beethoven and Mendelssohn.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Hyde |first=Derek |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPiADwAAQBAJ&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PT54 |title=New-found Voices: Women in Nineteenth-century English Music |date=2018-12-20 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-429-82762-4}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |publisher=Wilcox & White Company |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCwuAAAAYAAJ&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PA118 |title=Fifty-eight Note Music for All Styles of the Angelus: (either Interior Or Cabinet Form) and the Symphony, Styles 1000, 950, 558, 258 and 208 |date=1905}}</ref> She sometimes published under the pseudonym<ref>{{Cite book |last=Drone |first=Jeanette Marie |title=Musical AKAs: assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music |date=2007 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5739-1 |location=Lanham, Md |page=578 |oclc=ocm62858081}}</ref> '''Jules de Sivrai'''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stewart-Green |first=Miriam |title=Women composers: a checklist of works for the solo voice |date=1980 |publisher=G.K. Hall |isbn=978-0-8161-8498-9 |series=A Reference publication in women's studies |location=Boston, Mass |page=113}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Stern |first=Susan |title=Women composers: a handbook |date=1978 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-1138-6 |location=Metuchen, N.J |page=143}}</ref>
==Biography== Roeckel was born in Clifton, England, into a family of artists and musicians. Her father was the Old Water Colour Society and Bristol School painter Samuel Jackson;<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Bristol Post |date=2020-03-31 |page=50 |title=Man's world Lone woman among the worthies |quote=Letters: ...an old book... Bristol Worthies by A.B. Freeman, from 1909 |url=https://www.pressreader.com/uk/bristol-post/20200331/282389811582474 |access-date=2024-05-18 |via=PressReader}}</ref> her brother Samuel Phillips Jackson was also a painter; her sister Ada Villiers was a musician; and her uncle was the Austrian composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel.<ref>{{Cite book |ASIN=B001E9OZLQ |last=Laurence |first=Anya |title=Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 |publisher=Richards Rosen Press Inc. |year=1978 |location=New York |page=49}}</ref> Roeckel studied piano and harmony first with her father, then with Jacques Blumenthal, Charles Halle, Bernhard Molique, Ernst Pauer, and Clara Schumann.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-0-0 |page=593}}</ref> In 1864, she married Joseph Leopold Roeckel, who was also a composer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Grove |first=George |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HMbNPpcgEkMC&dq=jane+roeckel&pg=PA118 |title=Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=1908 |publisher=T. Presser}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xf0sAAAAYAAJ&dq=jane+roeckel&pg=PA414 |chapter=Mrs. Jane Roeckel |title=Strand Musical Magazine |volume=1 |publisher=George Newnes |pp=414-415 |date=1895}}</ref>
Roeckel invented the “Pamphonia,” a device used to learn the different clefs and staves.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wier |first=Albert E. |title=The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians |publisher=The Macmillan Company |year=1938 |location=New York |page=1564}}</ref> It was a model of an eleven line stave with movable bars.<ref name=":0" /> She composed works for piano rolls for the Aeolian Company,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yw5AAAAIAAJ&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PA35 |title=Catalog of Music for the Pianola, Pianola Piano and Aeriola |date=1905 |publisher=Aeolian Company}}</ref> the Melvin Clark Piano Company,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chicago |first=Melville Clark Piano Co |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uf44AAAAIAAJ&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PA209 |title=Catalog of Music Rolls for the Apollo Piano: Apollo Concert Grand, Apollo and Apolloette Piano Players and the Orpheus, Self-playing Orchestrion |date=1905}}</ref> and the Wilcox & White Piano and Organ Company.<ref name=":2" />
Roeckel was a philanthropist who organized many charitable concerts for struggling artists, helped establish the Bristol Scholarship at the Royal College of Music, and founded the Teachers Provident Association in 1885. Her best known charitable work was bringing the violinist Marie Hall to the attention of Philip Napier Miles, who became Hall’s benefactor. He paid Hall's living expenses in London while she attended the Royal Academy of Music, and later enabled her to study with Czech violinist Otakar Ševčík in Prague for 18 months.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z5YPAAAAYAAJ&dq=jane+roeckel&pg=PA670 |title=The Musical Times |date=1907 |volume=48 |publisher=Novello}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smeJDAAAQBAJ&dq=jane+roeckel&pg=PA72 |title=Musical Women in England, 1870-1914: Encroaching on All Man's Privileges |last=Gillett |first=Paula |date=2000-07-07 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-0-312-29934-7}}</ref>
Roeckel’s compositions were frequently performed by the pianist Arabella Goddard.<ref name=":0" /> They were published by Chappell & Company.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_rGp0Uip1nIC&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PA134 |title=The Illustrated London News |chapter=New Music |date=1871-07-29 |p=92 |publisher=Illustrated London News}}</ref>
==Selected works==
=== Piano === *arrangements of Beethoven and Mendelssohn symphonies<ref name=":1" /> *''Danse Russe<ref name=":3" />'' *''Miranda, Shakespearean Illustration No. 1<ref name=":3" />'' *''Reverie-Mazurka<ref name=":3" />''
=== Vocal === *"Drifting On"<ref name=":3" /> *''Moxlyn'' (mixed chorus)<ref name=":3" /> *''Our King and Queen'' (soprano or tenor and vocal quartet)<ref name=":3" /> *"Remember Me" (by Hugh Conway; arranged by Jules de Sivrai)<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Clement |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0hy-bQxd2QC&dq=jules+de+sivrai&pg=PA320 |title=The Theatre |last2=Capes |first2=Bernard Edward Joseph |last3=Eglington |first3=Charles |last4=Bright |first4=Addison |date=1885 |publisher=Wyman & Sons}}</ref> *"Village Story"<ref name=":3" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6JUp04EH8 Listen to Danse Russe by Jane Roeckel] *[https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Röckel,_Jane Download free public domain sheet music by Jane Roeckel]
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