Mary Knight Wood Mason (17 April 1857 – 20 December 1944) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in
Easthampton,
Massachusetts, the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist
Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight. She was educated at Charlier Institute in
New York City and Miss Porter's School in
Farmington
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...
,
Connecticut, studying music with
Karl Klauser,
Benjamin Johnson Lang and
Henry Holden Huss.
Knight married Charles Greenleaf Wood of
Boston in 1879, and Alfred Bishop Mason of New York in 1914, after which she lived in
New York City and summered at a cabin in the
Catskill Mountains
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. She died in
Florence,
Italy.
Works
Wood published about fifty songs. Selected works include:
*''Afterward''
*''Thou''
*''Ashes of Roses'' (Words by Elaine Goodale)
*''Thy Name''
*''Songs of Sleep''
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
*''Women at an Exposition: Music Composed by Women and Performed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago'' Audio CD (July 27, 1993) Koch Int'l Classics, ASIN: B000001SH8
References
External links
*
Sheet music for "Afterward" Oliver Ditson Company, 1896.
1857 births
1944 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century American composers
19th-century women composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century American composers
20th-century women composers
20th-century American women musicians
American classical composers
American women classical composers
Classical musicians from Massachusetts
Miss Porter's School alumni
People from Easthampton, Massachusetts
19th-century American women musicians
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