Mary Grant Carmichael
Mary Grant Carmichael (185117 March 1935) was an English composer. She was born in Birkenhead near Liverpool, and may have been of Irish parentage. She was educated in France and Switzerland, and later studied music in Munich.
Mary Grant Carmichael
- Born
- 1851 · Birkenhead.
- Died
- 1935 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- composer · pianist
- Languages
- English
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Mary Grant Carmichael (185117 March 1935) was an English composer. She was born in Birkenhead near Liverpool, and may have been of Irish parentage. She was educated in France and Switzerland, and later studied music in Munich.
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After completing her education, she worked as a pianist and an accompanist. She died in London.
Carmichael was known as a composer of songs and piano pieces. Selected works include: • Cradle song (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake) • Infant Joy (Text: William Blake) • Introduction to the Songs of Innocence (Text: William Blake) • It is the hour (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron) • Merrily flute and loudly (in Three Lyrics (first set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine) • Mona spinning (Text: Alice Cary), published in The Girl's Own Paper (1886) • My faint spirit, op. 12 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) • So loved and so loving, op. 8 no. 1 (in Three Lyrics (second set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine) • Sweetheart, sigh no more (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich) • The blossom (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake)
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- 1.Grove Music Online 2019967 Nigel Burton Carmichael, Mary Grant
- 2.Silke Wenzel: Artikel „Mary Carmichael“. In: MUGI. Musikvermittlung und Genderforschung: Lexikon und multimediale Präsentationen. Hrsg. von Beatrix Borchard und Nina Noeske, Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, 2003ff. Stand: 19. Dezember 2017, abgerufen am 30. August 2023.
- 3.Sophie Fuller. The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the United States. 1994. 0-04-440897-8.
- 4.Nigel Burton. Carmichael, Mary Grant. 1995. 0-333-51598-6.
- 5.Composer: Mary Grant Carmichael (1851–1935). In: The LiederNet Archive (englisch)
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