Marie Novello (18981928), Welsh pianist. She was one of Theodor Leschetizky's last students and performed in public from childhood. Her early death from throat cancer cut short a promising career just as she began to record for one of the major English labels, having already amassed a considerable discography for one of its second-rank competitors. She was adopted by her piano teacher, the mother of Ivor Novello. Date: 1917