Elisabeth Meyer (composer)
Katharina Elisabeth Meyer née Tuxen (b. 19 July 1859, d. 4 July 1927) was a Danish composer.[1] She was born in Svendborg, Denmark,[2] sister of singer Marie English. She studied music with her mother and possibly composers and . She married and had four children, and died in Copenhagen.[3]
Works[]
Meyer wrote about sixty songs and a cantata (lost). Selected works include:
- The Lark
- Berceuse for violin and pianoforte
- Naar Duggen falder for pianoforte[4]
References[]
- ^ Lawrence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. New York, New York: Richards Rosen Press Inc. p. 54.
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ The athenaeum. 1919.
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Categories:
- 1859 births
- 1927 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- Women classical composers
- Danish classical composers
- People from Svendborg
- Danish women composers
- 20th-century women composers