Timeline

Born at 29 Oxford Road, London NW6

Attends Frognall School, Fitzjohn's Avenue, London NW3. Meets Maeve Bax and her father, composer Arnold Bax

Takes music lessons with composer Benjamin Dale

Attends Royal Academy of Music, studying composition and piano
Composes music for the ballet Nausicaa

Marries Jiří Mucha
Composes Písen šibenice, and unfinished songs to texts by Jiří Mucha

Piano Quartet performed at Wigmore Hall, published by Boosey & Hawks

Called for wartime service, working on a telephone switchboard

Composes incidental music to a play by Charles Williams at Steiner Hall

Composes First String Quartet

Relocates to Prague with her husband, Jiří Mucha

Lives out in the Czech countryside at Želežná Ruda

Participates in the organisation of the first Prague Spring Music Festival, directed by Raphael Kubelík. During this time she meets Yehudi Menuhin, David Oistrakh, Leonard Bernstein

Composes Sonata in G Minor for violin and piano

The birth of her son John Mucha

Jiří Mucha is arrested and put in prison

Moves to a flat in Hradčany, Prague

Throughout the 50s, begins working at a music publishers where she edits the complete works of Dvořák

Composes the symphonic poem, Šumava

Jiří Mucha is released from prison

Composes Sixteen Variations on an Old Scottish Song

Translates Jaroslav Vogel's biography of Leoš Janáček into English

Full full-length ballet, Macbeth, is completed

During this time Geraldine lives in Scotland, keeping a flat in London and often visiting Prague

Death of Jiří Mucha, composition of Epitaph

90th Birthday Concert held at the National Museum in Prague

95th Birthday Concert held at the Prague Conservatory

Geraldine Mucha dies aged 95 at her home in Prague