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Cora May Folsom Salisbury Aulmann (February 12, 1868 — April 16, 1916), sometimes billed as C. Folsom Salisbury, was an American musician and composer of piano music, including works in the
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After her first marriage ended, Cora Folsom Salisbury helped her mother run boarding houses, tried her hand at sales, and returned to music, earning a living as an accompanist and stage pianist. Around 1907 she started a
"Mrs. Cora Salisbury Weds"
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Cora May Folsom Aulmann's gravesite
on Find a Grave.
Sheet music for Salisbury's "Ghost Dance" (1911)
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Cora May Folsom Salisbury Aulmann (February 12, 1868 — April 16, 1916), sometimes billed as C. Folsom Salisbury, was an American musician and composer of piano music, including works in the ragtime
Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that flourished from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott ...
genre. She was also the first vaudeville partner of violinist Benjamin Kubelsky, later known as comedian Jack Benny
Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, February 14, 1894 – December 26, 1974) was an American entertainer who evolved from a modest success playing violin on the vaudeville circuit to one of the leading entertainers of the twentieth century with ...
.
Early life
Cora May Folsom was born inOshkosh, Wisconsin
Oshkosh is a city in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, of which it is the county seat. The city had a population of 66,816 in 2020, making it the ninth-largest city in Wisconsin. It is also adjacent to the Town of Oshkosh.
History
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, the only child of James Harrison Folsom and Eliza Ann Knofsker Folsom. Her father and his brother ran a sawmill. In widowhood, her mother ran a boarding house. Cora studied piano as a girl.Bill Edwards"Cora May Folsom Salisbury Aulman"
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Career
After her first marriage ended, Cora Folsom Salisbury helped her mother run boarding houses, tried her hand at sales, and returned to music, earning a living as an accompanist and stage pianist. Around 1907 she started a vaudeville
Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...
act as a "pianologist" ("pianologue" was her own invented word for piano performance with interspersed comedic observations), and began touring the American midwest and publishing her original compositions. Works published under the name "C. Folsom Salisbury" included ''Paula'' (1906, a valse caprice for piano solo, dedicated to Paula Edwardes
Paula A. Edwardes (1878 – after 1926) was an American stage performer in musical comedies and vaudeville.
Early life
Edwardes was born in New York CityHelen Arthur"Beauties of the American Stage"''National Magazine'' (December 1904): 327–329. ...
), ''Poodles Parade'' (1907, a march and two-step), ''My Light Guitar'' (1908), ''Lemons and Limes'' (1909, a ragtime piece), ''Arbutus Blossoms'' (1910), ''Ghost Dance'' (1911), and ''Love's Embrace''.
She was the house pianist at a theatre in Waukegan, Illinois
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when she was not touring. There, in 1909, she met a young violinist who was in the theatre's orchestra. Benny Kubelsky eventually partnered with Cora Folsom Salisbury on tour, as they both had a knack for mixing music and humor. As "Salisbury and Benny" they presented both classical and popular music, along with some of Salisbury's original compositions. The act succeeded enough to play the Palace Theatre in New York City, and launched the show business career of Jack Benny.
Personal life
Cora Folsom married Charles P. Salisbury, a newspaper editor and theatrical manager, in 1888. They divorced in 1903. Cora left performing and touring to care for her mother in 1914. She married again, to a naval officer, George L. Aulmann.''Oshkosh Northwestern'' (October 14, 1914): 3. via
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Cora's mother died in 1915, and Cora died the next year, aged 48 years. Her remains were buried near her mother's in Oshkosh.
References
External links
Cora May Folsom Aulmann's gravesite
on Find a Grave.
Sheet music for Salisbury's "Ghost Dance" (1911)
downloadable from Historic Sheet Music Collection, Greer Music Library, Connecticut College. {{DEFAULTSORT:Salisbury, Cora Folsom 1868 births 1916 deaths American women composers 20th-century American composers People from Oshkosh, Wisconsin 20th-century women composers 20th-century American women pianists 20th-century American pianists Musicians from Wisconsin Ragtime composers 19th-century American women musicians