Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856[1] – 12 September 1938[2]) was an American soprano and composer. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at Wellesley College and performed in churches. In 1881 she married Sumner Salter. She died in Orangeburg, New York. She was one of the founding members of the American Society of Women Composers.[3]

Works

Turner wrote about 130 songs. Selected works include:

  • The Cry of Rachel
  • Song of April
  • A Der Schmetterling (from Three German Songs) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
  • Love's Epitome (a cycle of five songs)
  • Foreign Lands (text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
  • Life (from Five Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
  • The High Song (text: Humbert Wolfe)
  • Wandrers Nachtlied (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)[4]

References
  1. Marquis, Albert Nelson (1938). Who's who in New England, 2nd Edition. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  2. Etnier Villamil, Victoria (2004). A Singer's Guide to the American Art Song: 1870-1980. Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 333. ISBN 9781461655992.
  3. Block, Adrienne Fried (1998). Amy Beach, passionate Victorian: the life and work of an American composer. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507408-4. Retrieved 16 October 2010.
  4. "Composer: Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856-1938)". Retrieved 16 October 2010.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.