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Joy FinziJoy Finzi (March 3, 1907 - June 14, 1991) was an artist, the wife of composer Gerald Finzi, and founder of the Finzi Trust. Born Joyce Black in Hampstead, London, she studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933. They had two sons, Christopher or "Kiffer" and Nigel. Joy and her husband devoted much of the 1930s to preserving the work of composer-poet, Ivor Gurney. In the meantime, Joy sketched portraits of contemporaries including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edmund Blunden, Ursula Le Guin and Sir Adrian Boult. Together with her husband, Joy played an important part in founding the Newbury String Players. Following Gerald's death in 1956, Joy Finzi founded the Finzi Trust to finance the recording of his work and that of other composers. She lived alone, but continued to draw and sculpt, and published two volumes of poetry. Her last days were spent with the family of her elder son, Christopher. Finzi, Joy Finzi, Joy
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