England
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an acclaimed British conductor and composer. The son of an Englishwoman and
Our Composers
Germany
Fanny Hensel
Fanny Hensel was one of the most prolific and original song composers of the nineteenth
United States
Adolphus Hailstork
Adolphus Hailstork is a prolific composer who has written over 250 works in just about
Germany
Marie Franz
Marie Franz published one opus of six songs in 1846, under her maiden name Hinrichs,
United States
Irene Britton Smith
Irene Britton Smith was a Black American composer (also of Crow and Cherokee descent) who
United States
Florence Price
Florence Price was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who was born in Little
Video Recordings
The music by these composers has not been recorded very often, in some cases not at all. This is why one of the purposes of the ASA is to offer quality video recordings of this overlooked repertoire.
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Fanny Hensel’s op. 1 (a collection of six songs) was published in the summer of 1846, less than a year before she died of a stroke at the age of 41.
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Marie Vespermann appeared in public concerts as young as age nine and began composing songs at age twelve.
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Marie Franz composed a stirring setting of Goethe’s poem “Meine Ruh ist hin,” which is even more turbulent than Franz Schubert’s immortal 1814 setting of the same text — “Gretchen am Spinnrade.”
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Mary Wurm was a gifted piano teacher. In 1914, she published a collection of music designed for the teaching of preschool-age children, The ABCs of Music (Das ABC der Musik).
Cykler Song
Scholars
- University of Oregon
The Cykler Song Scholars program was created by Stephen Rodgers in 2022 to encourage graduate student research on song, of any genre.
Stephen Rodgers is the Edmund A. Cykler Chair in Music and Professor of Music Theory and Musicianship at the University of Oregon, where he has been teaching since 2005. Rodgers’s research focuses on the relationship between music and poetry in art songs from the nineteenth century to the present day, especially art songs by underrepresented composers.