Early life and marriage She was born at 42 York Terrace,
Regent's Park, London on 15 December 1862 (rather than in 1866 as is sometimes stated), (1811–76) On 4 October 1882 at Marylebone parish church, she married
barrister and former
footballer Frederick Brunning Maddison (1849–1907); the ceremony was repeated on 14 April 1883 at Christ Church,
Lancaster Gate, London, where her status as a minor was correctly recorded. Maddison and her husband were prominent figures in the London music scene starting around 1890, alongside patrons such as
Mabel Batten and
Frank Schuster. From around 1894, Maddison and her husband played a major part in encouraging and facilitating
Gabriel Fauré's entry onto the London musical scene. was a success. She continued to compose opera and songs, and to produce concerts, into the 1920s. From the early 1920s, Martha Mundt lived in
Geneva, having joined the secretariat of the
International Labour Organization (ILO) as an information officer on the strength of the recommendation of leading German socialist
Eduard Bernstein to the ILO director,
Albert Thomas. Mundt became the ILO's officer dealing with employment issues for women and children, and the ILO's liaison with feminist organisations. She represented the ILO at a number of international congresses around Europe. Maddison often travelled to Geneva to visit Mundt there.
Death and legacy Maddison died in
Ealing, London in 1929, after a long illness. Later in 1929, the Guild of Singers and Players held a memorial concert which marked the initiation of an Adela Maddison memorial fund. The scores for the compositions she created during her stays in Paris and Berlin, and for the music she created for the Glastonbury Festivals, seem to have been lost. ==Works==