Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill (23 March 187017 February 1948) was an American composer and pianist.
Verrill was born in
Portland
Portland most commonly refers to:
* Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States
* Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas ...
, Maine to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895. They had five children.
Verrill's music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include:
Piano
*''Alone''
*''Birch Tree''
*''Chaconne''
*''Du bist wie eine Blume''
*''Exultation''
*''Four Moods of a Gnome''
*''Ghosts on Parade''
*''It Happened in Spain''
*''It is Spring''
*''Jennie Kissed Me''
*''Lonely Pine''
*''March of the Patriot''
*''Reverie''
*''Rumpelstiltskin''
*''Slumber Song
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*''Tenderness''
*''Tone Pictures''
*''Tone Poem''
*''Walhalla''
*''Waltz''
*''When Shadows Fall''
*''Yellow Moon''
Vocal
*"Pleasant Dreams"
*''Winter Joy'' (solo and chorus)
*"You Came Like the Dawn" (music by Ivan McScod; text by Louise Brown Verrill)
External links
Download free sheet music by Louise Brown Verrill
References
American composers
American women composers
1870 births
1948 deaths
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