Margaret B. Hoberg Turrell (1890 – 1948) was an American composer, organist, and philanthropist who with her husband Herbert Turrell founded the Turrell Fund in 1935 to aid at-risk children. She published her music under the name Margaret Hoberg.
Hoberg was born in
Terre Haute
Terre Haute ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, about 5 miles east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 60,785 and its metropolitan area had a ...
, Indiana, where she began performing publicly on the piano when she was 12 years old. She later studied music for one year in Berlin, two years in Paris, and in New York City, where she gave concerts of her own compositions and worked as an organist.
In 1916, Hoberg received a fellowship to study at
MacDowell. Her Harp Concerto premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1919.
She married Herbert Turrell in 1922, a year after his first wife died. In 1935, the couple established the Turrell Fund to aid at-risk children. The Fund donated a total of $238,621,996 between 1935 and 2018, and remains active today.
Hoberg's music was published by
M. Witmark & Sons,
Oliver Ditson Co.
and
Arthur P. Schmidt Co.
Her compositions include:
Chamber
*''Allegro Maestoso'' (harp, violin and organ)
*''Calm'' (harp, violin and organ)
*''Country Dance'' (harp)
*''Log Cabin Sketches'' (alternate title: ''Two Suites for Harp'')
Orchestra
*Harp Concerto (also arranged for harp and organ)
Vocal
*"Hiawatha's Vision" (baritone and piano)
*''
Little Orphant Annie
"Little Orphant Annie" is an 1885 poem written by James Whitcomb Riley and published by the Bowen-Merrill Company. First titled "The Elf Child", the name was changed by Riley to "Little Orphant Allie" at its third printing; however, a typesetti ...
'' (choir; text by
James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His ...
)
*''Maid of the Mist'' (women's choir; text by Colgate Baker)
*"Such a Starved Bank of Moss" (text by
Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets. He was noted for irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings ...
)
*"When We Two Parted"
External links
Download free sheet music by Margaret HobergTurrell Fund Website
References
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1890 births
1948 deaths
American philanthropists
MacDowell Colony fellows
American women composers