Mary Grant Carmichael (185117 March 1935) was an
English composer. She was born in
Birkenhead near
Liverpool, and may have been of
Irish parentage. She was educated in
France and
Switzerland
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later studied music in
Munich. After completing her education, she worked as a pianist and accompanist and died in
London.
Works
Carmichael was known as a composer of songs and piano pieces. Selected works include:
*''Cradle song'' (in Four songs) (Text:
William Blake)
*''
Infant Joy'' (Text: William Blake)
*''Introduction to the Songs of Innocence'' (Text: William Blake)
*''It is the hour'' (Text:
George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
*''Merrily flute and loudly'' (in Three Lyrics (first set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after
Heinrich Heine
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* ''Mona spinning'' (Text:
Alice Cary
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Biography
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), published in ''The Girl's Own Paper'' (1886)
*''My faint spirit, op. 12'' (Text:
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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*''So loved and so loving, op. 8 no. 1'' (in Three Lyrics (second set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
*''Sweetheart, sigh no more'' (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
*''The blossom (in Four songs)'' (Text: William Blake)
References
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1851 births
1935 deaths
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