Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 – 12 September 1938) was an American

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and

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. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in

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, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at

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and performed in churches. In 1881 she married Sumner Salter. She died in Orangeburg,

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. She was one of the founding members of the American Society of Women Composers.

Works

Turner wrote about 130 songs. Selected works include: *''The Cry of Rachel'' *''Song of April'' *''A Der Schmetterling'' (from ''Three German Songs'') (Text: Heinrich Heine) *''Love's Epitome'' (a cycle of five songs) *''Foreign Lands'' (text: Robert Louis Stevenson) *''Life'' (from ''Five Songs'') (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar) *''The High Song'' (text: Humbert Wolfe) *''Wandrers Nachtlied'' (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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