Margaret Hoberg Turrell

Margaret B. Hoberg Turrell (1890 – 1948)[1][2] was an American composer,[3] organist,[4] and philanthropist who _ with her husband Herbert Turrell _ founded the Turrell Fund in 1935 to aid at-risk children.[5] She published her music under the name Margaret Hoberg.[6]

Hoberg was born in Terre Haute, Indiana,[7] where she began performing publicly on the piano when she was 12 years old. She later studied music for one year in Berlin, two years in Paris, and in New York City, where she gave concerts of her own compositions and worked as an organist.[8]

In 1916,[9] Hoberg received a fellowship to study at MacDowell.[10] Her Harp Concerto premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1919.[11] She married Herbert Turrell in 1922, a year after his first wife died.[12] In 1935, the couple established the Turrell Fund to aid at-risk children. The Fund donated a total of $238,621,996 between 1935 and 2018, and remains active today.[13]

Hoberg's music was published by M. Witmark & Sons,[14] Oliver Ditson Co.[15] and Arthur P. Schmidt Co.[16] Her compositions include:

Chamber
  • Allegro Maestoso (harp, violin and organ)[11]
  • Calm (harp, violin and organ)[11]
  • Country Dance (harp)[11]
  • Log Cabin Sketches (alternate title: Two Suites for Harp)[11]

Orchestra
  • Harp Concerto (also arranged for harp and organ)[11]

Vocal

References
  1. Turrell, Margaret Hoberg. "ancestry.com". Retrieved 9 May 2021.
  2. Falconer-Salkeld, Bridget (2005). The MacDowell Colony: A Musical History of America's Premier Artists' Community. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5419-2.
  3. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  4. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. "The Turrell Fund". The Imprint. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  6. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  7. Terre Haute and Her People of Progress. Biographers, Incorporated. 1970.
  8. Clubs, Indiana Federation of Music (1936). Indiana Composers, Native and Adopted. Indiana University.
  9. The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega. Alpha Chi Omega. 1916.
  10. "Margaret Hoberg - Artist". MacDowell. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  11. "Category:Hoberg, Margaret - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  12. Trust, Caryl Keele Trust Caryl Keele; Kincaid, Diane D.; Keele, Harold M.; Kiger, Joseph Charles; Staff, Caryl Keele Trust (1984). Foundations. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-22556-7.
  13. "About | Turrell Fund". www.turrellfund.org. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  14. The Playground. Executive Committee of the Playground Association of America. 1926.
  15. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1915). Catalog of Copyright Entries.
  16. The Musical Leader. J. French Demerath and E. French Smith. 1917.
  17. Music, Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill ) School of (1918). General Catalogue. the University.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. Riley, James Whitcomb (1913). The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley: In which the Poems, Including a Number Heretofore Unpublished, are Arranged in the Order in which They Were Written, Together with Photographs, Bibliographic Notes and a Life Sketch of the Author. Bobbs-Merrill Company.
  19. Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1911.
  20. Robert Browning: A Bibliography, 1830-1950. Cornell University Press. 1953.
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