Winifred Merrill Warren

This article is about the violinist. For the mathematician, see Winifred Edgerton Merrill. For lingerie designer "Winifred Warren", see Jessie Franklin Turner.

Winifred Merrill Warren
A young woman with short dark hair, leaning forward, holding a violin.
Winifred Merrill, photographed in 1925 by Arnold Genthe
Born(1898-07-24)July 24, 1898
Atlanta, Georgia
DiedMarch 11, 1990(1990-03-11) (aged 91)
Illinois
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Violinist, college professor

Winifred Merrill Warren (July 24, 1898 – March 11, 1990) was an American violinist and music educator, a professor of music at the Indiana University School of Music from 1938 to 1961.

Early life

Winifred Merrill was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Barzille Winfred Merrill and Mary Ann Neely Merrill.[1] Her father was a violinist, a student of Joseph Joachim and Bernhard Ziehn;[2] he taught music in Iowa and was founder and dean of the music department at Indiana University.[3] She attended the Institute of Musical Art in New York, with further studies in Paris in 1932.[4] Her teachers and mentors included Édouard Dethier, Franz Kneisel, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger.[5]

Career

Winifred Merrill gave her first professional recital in 1925, in Iowa.[6] She was a guest soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. She began teaching music at Indiana University in 1927.[7][8] She became an assistant professor in 1938, after her father's retirement from the school.[5] She formed the Indiana University Trio with two of her colleagues, Finnish cellist Lennart von Zweygberg and German pianist Ernest Hoffzimmer.[9][10] She taught two summers in Munich with the Indiana University Summer Music School program.[11] She gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in 1944.[12] "Miss Merrill is obviously a musician who knows what she wants to do, and her intent and accomplishment were closely allied," reported one reviewer in 1950.[13]

She wrote The Arthur Stories (1987), a book of stories about her husband.[14]

Personal life

Winifred Merrill married Arthur Warren in 1961, the year she retired from Indiana University.[15] She died in 1990, aged 91 years, in Illinois. She left her violin to the Indiana University Foundation, for the use of violin students there.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Young Violinist to Appear Today at Art Institute". The Indianapolis Star. February 27, 1927. p. 69. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ College, Iowa State Teachers (1911). Catalog and Circular. p. 9.
  3. ^ "Endowments & Scholarships". Giving: Jacobs School of Music: Indiana University Bloomington. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  4. ^ "Miss Winifred Merrill, Home from Abroad, to Play at I. U." The Indianapolis Star. October 10, 1932. p. 5. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b Sanders, Chauncey (January 1941). "Musical Education at Indiana University" (PDF). The Indiana Alumni Magazine. 3: 11.
  6. ^ "Winifred Merrill's First Recital Will be Given Tomorrow". The Courier. November 18, 1925. p. 4. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Miss Winifred Merrill, George Y. Wilson Will Present I. U. Recital". The Bedford Daily-Times Mail. August 8, 1946. p. 3. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Extension Develops". The Indianapolis Star. November 17, 1929. p. 76. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Lyceum Program at Ball College; Indiana University Trio Will be Heard". Muncie Evening Press. May 13, 1930. p. 7. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "I. U. Trio to Broadcast". The Indianapolis Star. February 3, 1929. p. 17. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Indiana University Music Students and Teachers Plan Intensive Summer Course in Munich, Germany". The Indianapolis Star. March 24, 1929. p. 5. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "Event: Winifred Merrill". Data Carnegie Hall. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  13. ^ Whitworth, Walter (October 17, 1950). "Winifred Merrill Plays Unusual Violin Work". The Indianapolis News. p. 27. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ^ Warren, Winifred Merrill. (1987). The Arthur stories. Deerfield, IL: Lake Shore Pub. ISBN 0-941363-01-5. OCLC 19112584.
  15. ^ "Winifred Warren Service April 6". The Indianapolis News. March 20, 1990. p. 44. Retrieved December 19, 2019.
  16. ^ "Winifred Warren Had Taught Violin at IU for Many Years". The Indianapolis Star. March 21, 1990. p. 28. Retrieved December 19, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.