Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 - 1938) was an American soprano and composer. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at Wellesley College and performed in churches. In 1881 she married Sumner Salter. She died in Orangeburg, New York.^[1] She was one of the founding members of the American Society of Women Composers.^[2]

Works

Turner wrote about thirty songs. Selected works include:

• The Cry of Rachel
• Song of April
• A Der Schmetterling (from Three German Songs) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
• Love's Epitome
• Foreign Lands (text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
• Life (from Five Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The High Song (text: Humbert Wolfe)
• Wandrers Nachtlied (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)^[3]

References

1. ^ Marquis, Albert Nelson (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Who's who in New England, Volume 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=8dDUv19AKv4C&pg=PA816&lpg=PA816&dq=Mary+Elizabeth+Turner+Salter+composer&source=bl&ots=EWYxFBHnOY&sig=-PAVeJ-Ts-3EjkjHGzkFPi3CStA&hl=en&ei=qVu5TOqJJMOAlAeS3cmWBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Elizabeth%20Turner%20Salter%20composer&f=false. Retrieved 16 October 2010. 
2. ^ Block, Adrienne Fried (1998) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Amy Beach, passionate Victorian: the life and work of an American composer. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507408-4. http://books.google.com/books?id=o6HI1noueC4C&pg=PA366&lpg=PA366&dq=Mary+Elizabeth+Turner+Salter+composer&source=bl&ots=mhsaZ4ifXh&sig=CcdTnHWqhHtYsAc-ar-zdkQGgtQ&hl=en&ei=Xlq5TLfbLsO78gbFlpjGDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Elizabeth%20Turner%20Salter%20composer&f=false. Retrieved 16 October 2010. 
3. ^ "Composer: Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (1856-1938)". http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/s/salter.html. Retrieved 16 October 2010. 

External links

• Free scores by Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter at the International Music Score Library Project

Persondata
Name	Salter, Mary Elizabeth Turner
Alternative names
Short description	American soprano and composer
Date of birth	15 March 1856
Place of birth	Peoria, Illinois
Date of death	1938
Place of death	Orangeburg, New York