Alice Marion Shaw (born August 22, 1890) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher who was a well-known accompanist during the early 20th century.
Shaw was one of three children born in
Rockland, Maine, to Reverend Eurastus Melville Shaw and the composer
Carrie Burpee Shaw Mary Caroline (Carrie) Burpee Shaw (1850 - 1946) was an American composer, music educator, and pianist. She published her music under the name Carrie Burpee Shaw.
Shaw was born in Rockland, Maine, to Mary Jane Partridge and Nathaniel Adams Burpee. ...
. She studied piano with
Zygmunt Stojowski and composition with
Percy Goetschius
Percy Goetschius (August 10, 1853 – October 29, 1943) was an American music theorist and teacher who won international fame in the teaching of composition.
Career
Goetschius was born in Paterson, New Jersey. He was encouraged by Ureli Corell ...
at the
Institute of Musical Art (today the Juilliard School). She taught at the Rockland Music School,
which was started by her mother, before moving to New York.
Shaw was the accompanist for the New York Rubinstein Club in 1915 and for the Maine Festival in 1916.
She taught piano in New York and accompanied many noted artists, including flutist
George Barrere, violinists Eddy Brown and
Scipione Guidi Scipione Guidi (Venice, July 17, 1884 - Los Angeles, July 7, 1966) was an Italian violinist.
Biography
Guidi studied at the Milan Conservatory, where he later became a teacher. He moved to London where he formed the Trio Guidi and later moved to Ne ...
,
and singers
Louis Graveure, Vernon Stiles, and
Eleanor Painter Strong. She often performed the accompaniments from memory.
Shaw composed nearly 100 songs as well as music for organ, piano, cello, flute and violin. Her music was published by J. Fischer & Brother and Luckhardt & Belder.
Songs she composed included:
Songs
*''First Day of the Week'' (mixed chorus)
*“Little Man in Gray”
*“May Noon” (text by Aldrich)
*“Night”
*“Once on a Radiant Morning”
*“One April Day” (text by W. P. Gilmour)
*“Pussy-Willows” (text by Winnifred Fales)
*“Road to China” (text by Mazie V. Caruthers)
*“There is a LIttle Lady” (text by W. P. Gilmour)
*“To Go and Forget” (text by
Edwin Markham
Edwin Markham (born Charles Edward Anson Markham; April 23, 1852 – March 7, 1940) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.
Life
Edwin Markham was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and was the youngest of 10 children; ...
)
*“To the Unknown”
*“Waiting” (text by Charles Hanson Towne)
References
External links
Download free sheet music by Alice Marion Shaw
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American women composers
1890 births
20th-century American pianists
Juilliard School alumni
People from Rockland, Maine
Date of death missing
Place of death missing
20th-century American composers
20th-century American women pianists
20th-century women composers
Musicians from Maine