Lydia Kunz Venth

Lydia Kunz Venth (1858 – 23 May 1931)[1] was an American composer[2] and pianist.[3]

Venth was born in Pennsylvania to John Jacob and Henrietta Schlatter Kunz. She was a largely self-taught pianist and composer[4] who married violinist Carl Venth when she was 18 years old. They had a daughter named Elsa,[5] and later divorced.

Lydia and Carl established the Venth Music School in Brooklyn in 1888. Lydia worked as an accompanist[6][7] and taught piano at the school and privately after she and Carl divorced.[8] He remarried in 1899 and moved to Texas.[9]

Lydia's compositions[10] for piano and organ include:

References

  1. ^ Venth, Lydia Kunz (25 May 1931). "Obituary". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  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. ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  4. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  5. ^ Venth, Lydia Kunz (1931). "ancestry.com". Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  6. ^ The Musical Yearbook of the United States. G.H. Wilson. 1891.
  7. ^ The Citizen Almanac. Brooklyn Citizen. 1893.
  8. ^ Spillane, Daniel (1890). History of the American Pianoforte: Its Technical Development, and the Trade. D. Spillane. ISBN 978-1-01-953517-2.
  9. ^ Venth, Carl (30 Jan 1938). "Obituary". New York Times. Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  10. ^ Musical Courier. 1903.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h Sutro, Florence Edith Clinton (1895). Women in Music and Law. Author's Publishing Company.
  12. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of notes : 1,000 women composers born before 1900 (1st ed.). New York: R. Rosen Press. ISBN 0823904636. OCLC 3844781.
  13. ^ Ebel, Otto (1910). Les femmes compositeurs de musique: dictionnaire biographique (in French). P. Rosier.
  14. ^ Music for the Orchestrelle & Aeolian Grand. Aeolian Company. 1901.
  15. ^ 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)


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