Joy Finzi
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Joy Finzi (March 3, 1907 - June 14, 1991) was an artist and founder of the Finzi Trust, a foundation named for her deceased husband, composer Gerald Finzi.
She was born Joyce Black in Hampstead, London. She studied music and art, and married Finzi in 1933. They had two sons, Christopher and Nigel.
She and her husband devoted much of the 1930s to preserving the work of composer-poet, Ivor Gurney. She sketched portraits of contemporaries, including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edmund Blunden, Ursula Le Guin and Sir Adrian Boult.
Together with her husband, Finzi played an important part in founding the Newbury String Players. Following his death in 1956, she founded the Finzi Trust to finance the recording of his work and that of other composers. She continued to draw and sculpt, and published two volumes of poetry.