The concert overture was the most popular genre in concerts in Victorian England, at least one such appearing in virtually every orchestral concert program. Alice Mary Smith (1839–84) was the most prolific woman composer of her time, producing the greatest number of large-scale orchestral and choral works, as well as chamber compositions, of any of her gender, and at a time when women were only considered capable of writing drawing-room songs and piano miniatures. Of Smith's six overtures, The M...