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Guirne Creith was an English composer and pianist most active in the 1920s and 1930s. Creith was the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs George Cohen of Portland Place in London, and the cousin of the industrialist Robert Waley Cohen. She received the Charles Lucas Prize in 1925, having entered the Royal Academy of Music just two years before under the pseudonym Guirne M Creith. As a student at the Academy she studied composition under Benjamin Dale and conducting under Sir Henry Wood. She later studied piano with the Swiss pianist and renowned Bach interpreter Edwin Fischer.