Mary Knight Wood
Mary Knight Wood Mason (17 April 1857 – 20 December 1944) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts,[1] the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight. She was educated at Charlier Institute in New York City and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, studying music with , Benjamin Johnson Lang and Henry Holden Huss.
Knight married Charles Greenleaf Wood of Boston in 1879, and Alfred Bishop Mason of New York in 1914, after which she lived in New York City and summered at a cabin in the Catskill Mountains. She died in Florence, Italy. [2][3]
Works[]
Wood published about fifty songs. Selected works include:
- Afterward
- Thou
- Ashes of Roses (Words by Elaine Goodale)
- Thy Name
- Songs of Sleep
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Women at an Exposition: Music Composed by Women and Performed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago Audio CD (July 27, 1993) Koch Int'l Classics, ASIN: B000001SH8
References[]
- ^ Births in Easthampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts
- ^ Saerchinger, César, ed. (1918). International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, Volume 5 (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 21 December 2010.
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 21 December 2010.
External links[]
- Free scores by Mary Knight Wood at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Sheet music for "Afterward", Oliver Ditson Company, 1896.
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