Olivia Buckley

Olivia Francisca Buckley Dussek (* 1799 in London, † 1847) was an English pianist, harpist and composer. She is the daughter of the Bohemian composer Jan Ladislav Dusík (also: Dussek ).

Olivia Francisca was born in 1799 as the only child of the couple Dusik ( Dussek ) in London. Immediately after her birth, the father fled after being with his father Domenico Corri (1733-1825), was established music publisher went bankrupt, to Hamburg. The mother pulled her child alone, taught there in both the harp and the piano and organized public appearances of the child. At the age of 8 years, she gave his first concerts in London. Not yet come of age, she married William Richard Buckley, whose son Richard Buckley later a major translator uA should be of Homer. In addition to raising 10 children and their duties as a mother and housewife she led the way an active musical life: She performed in concerts (but refused to allegedly vehemently against playing works of her husband ), gave lessons and was the last 7 years of her life organist in Kensington Parish Church. Under the synonym OBDussek ( she used her second name Francisca almost never ), it published compositions for the harp with the title "The Harpist 's Friend " - Thought for the women in the Victorian era, with the the salons of their parents the should comply with the harp playing. She also published several vocal works entitled " Fairy Songs and Ballads for the Young ". However, 10 children in nearly 25 years, every day, for hours, often compulsive music and their activities should have demanded as a housewife taking its toll; she died at just 48 years.

• Classic organist
• Classic harpist
• Composer
• Born in 1799
• Died in 1847
• Woman