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. Her brother was the marine impressionist painter William Partridge Burpee. Shaw married Reverend Eurastus Melville Shaw in 1873 and they had three children, Winifred May, Louis Eaton, and the composer
Alice Marion Shaw
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.
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, Hermann Kotschmann,
Frederic Lamond,
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,
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,
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, and
Antha Minerva Virgil
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. She worked as an organist in several different churches. In 1873, Shaw founded the Rockland Rubenstein Club.
In 1900, she and Mrs. James Wright opened the Rockland Music School. In 1907, Shaw accompanied the Maine Festival Chorus. She donated her music collection to the
Rockland Public Library
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in 1942.
Shaw’s music was published by C.W. Thompson & Company.
Her compositions include some instrumental works
as well as the following compositions for voice and piano:
*“All is O’er”
*“Dandelions” (text by Winnifred Fales)
*''Field Sparrow'' (women’s chorus)
*''Humpty-Dumpty'' (mixed chorus)
*“My Sunshine”
*''Prairie Dog'' (men’s chorus; text by Winnifred Fales)
*''Te Deum Laudamus'' (mixed chorus)
*''The Lord is Great in Zion'' (mixed chorus)
*''There was a Little Man'' (mixed chorus)
References
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American women composers
1850 births
1946 deaths
People from Rockland, Maine
American music educators