Clare Horan Cawley (1874 – December 26, 1921) was an American pianist.

Early life and education

Clare Horan was born in

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, the daughter of Patrick J. Horan and Mary A. Garvey Horan. All of her grandparents were born in Ireland. Her father was a businessman, born in Ireland. Her uncle was

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, the Roman Catholic bishop of Altoona. She studied piano in

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with Professor E. E. Southworth, before pursuing further training in New York City with Charles Lee Tracy. She also went to study in Paris, with

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, and in Vienna, with Marie Prentner and

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."Prominent Musicians of Scranton"
''The Musical Courier'' (January 4, 1905): 30-31.

Career

Clare Horan was a pianist and piano teacher in Scranton, after she returned from Vienna in 1901. She gave recitals, was a soloist in concerts of the Scranton Symphony Orchestra, and accompanied

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in her 1902 concert there. In widowhood, she reopened her Scranton studio to teach piano. Polish composer and critic dedicated a composition to Clare Horan in 1901, while she was studying in Vienna.

Personal life

Horan's sister Margaret died soon after childbirth in 1901; Clare Horan married her sister's widower, attorney Matthew P. Cawley, in 1903, and raised her nephew, Eugene Horan Cawley, as her stepson. She was widowed in 1906, and she died from a heart attack at her home in Dunmore, in 1921. Her grave is in the St. Mary's of Mount Carmel Church cemetery in Dunmore. "The funeral was one of the largest in Dunmore in some time," reported the local newspaper's account.

References

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