Nannie Louise Wright

Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 – March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher born in Fayette, Missouri.[1] She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the Columbia School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Wright studied piano with Mary Wood Chase in Chicago and with Josef Lhévinne in Berlin.[2] She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909.[3] Later, she served as President of the Missouri State Music Teachers' Association and as Dean of Music at Central Methodist University's Swinney Conservatory of Music in Fayette.[1]

Her compositions include:[2]

Orchestra
  • Piano Concerto, opus 42 (also arranged for two pianos)[3]

Piano
  • Acrobatic Stunts (1949)[4]
  • Air de Ballet[5]
  • American Indian Sketches, opus 63 (1921)[6]
  • At Evening, opus 38[7]
  • Autumn, Winter, Spring[3]
  • Banjo, opus 74 no. 4
  • Banjo Picker[8]
  • Bee and the Clover
  • Bell
  • Bells Across the Valley (1953)[9]
  • Birds, opus 36 no. 3
  • Circus Parade, opus 30 no. 1
  • Concert Study in C Major (1924)[6]
  • Dance of the Brownies, opus 98, no. 2
  • Glory to God (1953)[9]
  • Grandmother's Minuet, opus 98 no. 1
  • Happy and Gay (1949)[4]
  • Hop, Skip and Play (1953)[9]
  • Humoresque
  • Ice Skating (1949)[4]
  • In Springtime, opus 36[7] Jaunty Ride (1949)[4]
  • Juggler
  • March, opus 22
  • March of the Boy Scouts, opus 74 no. 1
  • Melody in e minor (1949)[4]
  • Miniature Etudes, opus 71
  • Night Song
  • Orchard Swing (1942)[6]
  • Pieces, opus 24
  • Plantation Dance, opus 98 no. 3
  • Prelude, opus 25 no. 1
  • Roller Coaster (1953)[9]
  • Rondo, opus 4 no. 1
  • Scarf Dance[7]
  • Scherzo (1953)[9]
  • Serenade, opus 14
  • Seven Melodious Pieces[10]
  • Six Little Pieces, opus 24[7]
  • Thoughts at Twilight (1949)[4]
  • Twelve Etudes
  • Twelve Preludes (1915)[10]
  • Valse Poetique (1953)[9]
  • Veil Dance[10]
  • Venetian Serenade
  • Waltz[10]

References
  1. "U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  2. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
  3. Krohn, Ernst Christopher (1924). A Century of Missouri Music. Privately printed.
  4. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1949). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  5. "Piano Scores, Braille: Composers Rachmaninoff through Zuschneid". National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) | Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
  6. "Inventory of the Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women's Song". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  7. "imslp.org nannie louise wright - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. "Sheet Music Catalog - Music Library - University of South Carolina". delphi.tcl.sc.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
  9. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1953). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
  10. "YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-24.
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