Kathleen Lockhart Manning

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Kathleen Lockhart Manning (born October 24, 1890 in Hollywood , † March 20, 1951 in Los Angeles ) was an American composer.

Lockhart showed her musical talent at an early age and began playing the piano and composing at the age of five. She traveled around the world and in 1908 studied piano and composition with Moritz Moszkowski . In the 1911/12 season she performed in London with the Hammerstein Opera Company .

She returned to the USA shortly before the start of the First World War. Her marriage to the industrialist Ned Manning made her financially independent so that she could devote herself entirely to composition. She mainly composed songs , as well as an opera , which was the first opera composed by a woman to be performed by the Metropolitan Opera Company .

Works

  • Vignettes , song cycle
  • Sketches of London , song cycle
  • Sketches of New York , song cycle
  • Japanese Ghost Songs , song cycle
  • Chinese Impressions , song cycle
  • Two Sketches of Childhood
  • The Tale the Garden Told
personal data
SURNAME Lockhart Manning, Kathleen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1951
Place of death los Angeles