Louise Brown Verrill

Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill[1] (23 March 1870 – 17 February 1948)[2] was an American composer[3] and pianist.

Verrill was born in Portland, Maine[4] to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895.[5] They had five children.[6]

Verrill's music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include:[7]

Piano

  • Alone
  • Birch Tree
  • Chaconne
  • Du bist wie eine Blume
  • Exultation
  • Four Moods of a Gnome
  • Ghosts on Parade
  • It Happened in Spain
  • It is Spring
  • Jennie Kissed Me
  • Lonely Pine
  • March of the Patriot
  • Reverie
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Slumber Song [8]
  • Tenderness
  • Tone Pictures
  • Tone Poem
  • Walhalla
  • Waltz
  • When Shadows Fall
  • Yellow Moon

Vocal

  • "Pleasant Dreams"
  • Winter Joy (solo and chorus)
  • "You Came Like the Dawn" (music by Ivan McScod; text by Louise Brown Verrill)

References

  1. ^ "Deceased Dames Maiden Alpha A to B". www.magnacharta.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Directory of American Women Composers. National Federation of Music Clubs. 1970.
  4. ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  5. ^ "Deaths (Published 1964)". The New York Times. 1964-08-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  6. ^ Verrill, Louise. "ancestry.com". Retrieved 16 Mar 2021.
  7. ^ 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)
  8. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of notes : 1,000 women composers born before 1900 (1st ed.). New York: R. Rosen Press. p. 32. ISBN 0823904636. OCLC 3844781.


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