Mary (Marie) Wurm 1860-1938

[giles.enders]

Mary (Marie) Josephine Agnes Wurm  Born 18.5.1860 Southampton, England   Died 21.1.1938 Munich

English pianist, conductor and composer whose Bavarian parents settled in Southampton where she was born.  Her father was a music teacher and her mother was a violinist.  She received her initial music training from them.  From 1869 she studied at the Stuttgart conservatory under Pruckner and later with Joachim Raff, Anna Mehlig,  Marie Krebs, Joseph Weiniawaski and Frank Taylor and for piano with Clara Schumann.  She subsequently studied in London under Stanford and Sullivan.

In Germany where she later settled she organised and conducted a women's orchestra in Berlin.  From 1925 she settled in Munich where she remained for the rest of her life.

Three of her sisters; Mathilde  1865-1936, Adela 1877-1952 and Alice 1868-1958 changed their name to Verne in 1893.  They were all pianists and piano teachers.

Orchestra

Piano Concerto in B minor  Op.21
Concert overture
'Dalila's Dream' - string orchestra
'Estera' gavotte  for string orchestra - also for piano
'Meteor'  waltz for string orchestra - also for piano

Chamber

String Quartet in B flat  Op.40
Lullaby for violin and piano  Op.7 (also version for solo piano)
Lullaby for violin and piano  Op.43
Sonata for violin and piano  Op.17
March for violin and piano  pub. by Augener
Sonata for cello and piano

Piano

Lullaby  Op.7
Sonata
Suite - Petite Berceuse, Gavotte Mignonne  Op.8  pub. by Hoffheinz
'Meteor' waltz - at one time called 'Empire Waltz  1887 
'Maien' waltz   pub. by Nagel
'Rosen' waltz   pub. by Steingraber
Barcarolle  Op.22  1892   pub. by Ashdown
Sylphe Dance  Op.23  1892
Four duets  Op.24  1892   pub. by Breitkopf & Hartel
Valse de Concert  Op.27  1893   pub. by Augener
Tanzweisen for four hands - gavotte, march, saltarello, lullaby.  Op.28
Kleine Stucke im Jugendstil  Op.30   pub. by Steingraber
Gavotte in D minor   pub. by Boosey
Gavotte in G   pub. by Boosey
'Joseph Hoffmann' gavotte'   pub. by Leonard
'Clotilde Kleeberg' gavotte - also for piano with strings 1889   pub. by Leonard
Mazurka   pub. by Boosey
Munchener  Kindl - polka   pub. by Nagel
Suite - Prelude, fugue, minuet, loure and gavotte  Op.40  1894  pub. by Ashdown
Fairy Music  Op.44   pub. by Ashdown
Four Pieces  - Scherzo, menuet, romanze, gavotte royale  Op.47
Serenate  Op.50   pub. by Steingraber
Two Fantasies   pub. by Steingraber

Song

Scots Guards - vocal march  words by Cornwallis West
A Child's Song
Three lieder Op.5
Herz lieb'kind
About the sweet bag of a Bee - four part song words by R Herrick  1892
Einst that ein lied erklingen - four part song  words by F A Leo  Op.33/1  1892
Albion - trio for female voices - words by S G Franz
Elit nicht - trio for female voices  words by S G Franz
'Hope' - trio for female voices words by S G Franz
Oh, let me bathe my heart  words by S G Franz  1888
O Spring - trio for female voices  words by S G Franz
One by One - four part song for mens voices  Op45  1894
So the world goes round - trio for female voices  Op.46
To the March winds - trio for female voices  words by S G Franz
Under the Greenwood tree - four part song for female voices 
Abschied eins Slowaken - words by Siegfried Kapper
Gute Nacht words by F A Leo
Schleisse mir die Augenbeide  words by Theodor Storm  Op.25/2
Gedenken  words by Gustav Eberlein  Op.25/3
Im Volkston  Op.25/4
Altes lied  Op.25/5
Kinderlied  words by Heinrich Leuthold  Op.25/7
Rote Anglein  Op.25/8
Mein Schatz ist uber'm Rheinessfrand  words by Wilhelm Osterwald  Op.25/9
Wo nur dem leben lusterbludt  words by A Kurs  1893  Op.39
Christ kind leins Wiegenlied aus Knaben Wunderhorn
Der Pfecl und das lied
Herzlieb'kind  words by Marie Wurm  Op.55/1
In einem Kleinen Kemmerlein  words by Joseph Huggenbergerr  Op.55.2
Uber die Haide halley mein Schritt  Op.55/3
Wiegenlied im Sommer  words by Robert Reinick

Opera


Die Mitschuldigen - after Goethe  Op.1
Prinzessin Lisa's Fee (Japanese children's opera)

[eschiss1]

See also the thread, including a longer biography, starting here (Alice Verne-Bredt who is the subject of the next post was the same née Alice Wurm then Alice Verne etc. as mentioned above, and a piano trio of whose has been recorded, I see mentioned in another thread.)

[jerfilm]

Do you have any idea where that recording might exist??

Jerry

[eschiss1]

One of Verne-Bredt's trios? Meridian CD, "English Romantic Trios", 2005.

[kolaboy]

For whatever reason I'm picturing her with a "bun" hairstyle...

[jerfilm]

Thanks, Eric

Jerry

[giles.enders]

If you 'google' A V-B you will find a picture of her.