Alfred Dudley Turner (24 August 1854 – 7 May 1888) was an American educator and composer. He was born in St. Albans, Vermont. After displaying unusual musical ability, as a child he went to Boston to study piano at the New England Conservatory, where his teachers included J. C. D. Parker and

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.Granville L. Howe & William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1837–1912)
''A Hundred Years of Music in America''
1st publishing by G. L. Howe, Chicago (1889); 2nd publishing

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(1900) Turner was an 1876 graduate of

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College of Music. He became an instructor at the

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. Among his students were Charles Dennée and

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. He died at his home in Auburn, Maine of an illness. A large collection of his manuscripts are archived at the

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Selected works

Turner produced 36 numbered compositions, mostly of piano and chamber music. Among them are: * A Romance * Berceuse * 6 Concert Etudes (Octave Valse Brillante, Expansion, Humoresque, "If I Were a Bird" à la Henselt, Maestoso, Wild Rider) * Valse Souvenir * Piano Quintet * 6 Studies in Double Thirds, Op. 14 * 6 Preludes, Op. 15 * Etudes de Concert, Op. 16 (No. 1 5/4 rhythm) * 2 Syncopation Studies, Op. 24 * 2 New Etudes, Op. 25 "Designed for the cultivation of ease and grace in the performance of rapid passages requiring a crossing of the hands for the pianoforte" * 15 Melodious Studies for Piano, Op. 30 * Christmas Suite for piano, Op. 33 * Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 34 He also wrote the piano technique book ''A complete set of scales for the Piano-Forte'' (''including double thirds, double sixths, arpeggios in all forms, Octaves, etc., carefully fingered from Dreyschock, Plaidy, and

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).'' It was first published in 1879 by the New England Conservatory, and reprinted nearly 20 years after his death in a 1907 edition.

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