Nannie Louise Wright

Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 – March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher born in Fayette, Missouri.[1] She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the Columbia School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Wright studied piano with Mary Wood Chase in Chicago and with Josef Lhévinne in Berlin.[2] She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909.[3] Later, she served as President of the Missouri State Music Teachers' Association and as Dean of Music at Central Methodist University's Swinney Conservatory of Music in Fayette, where one of her students was William Gillock.[1]

Her compositions include:[2]

Orchestra
  • Piano Concerto, opus 42 (also arranged for two pianos)[3]

Piano
  • Acrobatic Stunts (1949)[4]
  • Air de Ballet[5]
  • American Indian Sketches, opus 63 (1921)[6]
  • At Evening, opus 38[7]
  • Autumn, Winter, Spring[3]
  • Banjo, opus 74, No. 4
  • Banjo Picker[8]
  • Bee and the Clover
  • Bell
  • Bells Across the Valley (1953)[9]
  • Birds, opus 36, No. 3
  • Circus Parade, opus 30, No. 1
  • Concert Study in C Major (1924)[6]
  • Dance of the Brownies, opus 98, No. 2
  • Glory to God (1953)[9]
  • Grandmother's Minuet, opus 98, No. 1
  • Happy and Gay (1949)[4]
  • Hop, Skip and Play (1953)[9]
  • Humoresque
  • Ice Skating (1949)[4]
  • In Springtime, opus 36[7]
  • Jaunty Ride (1949)[4]
  • Juggler
  • March, opus 22
  • March of the Boy Scouts, opus 74, No. 1
  • Melody in e minor (1949)[4]
  • Miniature Etudes, opus 71
  • Night Song
  • Orchard Swing (1942)[6]
  • Pieces, opus 24
  • Plantation Dance, opus 98, No. 3
  • Roller Coaster (1953)[9]
  • Rondo, opus 4, No. 1
  • Scarf Dance[7]
  • Scherzo (1953)[9]
  • Serenade, opus 14
  • Seven Melodious Pieces[10]
  • Six Little Pieces, opus 24[7]
  • Thoughts at Twilight (1949)[4]
  • Twelve Etudes
  • Twelve Preludes, opus 25 (1915)[10]
  • Valse Poetique (1953)[9]
  • Veil Dance[10]
  • Venetian Serenade
  • Waltz[10]

References
  1. "U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  2. 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)
  3. Krohn, Ernst Christopher (1924). A Century of Missouri Music. Privately printed.
  4. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1949). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  5. "Piano Scores, Braille: Composers Rachmaninoff through Zuschneid". National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  6. "Inventory of the Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women's Song". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  7. "imslp.org nannie louise wright - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  8. "Sheet Music Catalog - Music Library - University of South Carolina". delphi.tcl.sc.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1953). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  10. "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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