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)
See also the thread, including a longer biography, starting here (http://www.unsungcomposers.com/forum/index.php/topic,1681.msg20311.html#msg20311) :) (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.)
Do you have any idea where that recording might exist??
Jerry
One of Verne-Bredt's trios? Meridian CD, "English Romantic Trios", 2005.
For whatever reason I'm picturing her with a "bun" hairstyle...
Thanks, Eric
Jerry
If you 'google' A V-B you will find a picture of her.