Ruth Gipps

Ruth Gipps (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) was a British composer, oboist, pianist and impresario. Ruth Gipps was born in Bexhill-on-Sea, England in 1921. She was a child prodigy, winning performance competitions in which she was considerably younger than the rest of the field. After performing her first composition at the age of 8 in one of the numerous music festivals she entered, the work was bought by a publishing house for a guinea and a half.