Cecil Steffen

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Cecil Steffen (born March 21, 1919 in Chicago , † December 8, 2009 in Hazel Green / Wisconsin ) was an American music teacher and composer.

The daughter of German immigrants had piano lessons from the age of nine, which she continued at the St. Clara Academy in Sinsinawa, the Dominican College in San Rafael, California, and the University of California, Berkeley . After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1941, she began teaching piano and school music. In 1944 she entered the order of the Sinsinawa Dominican Sisters . She then taught in Oklahoma before continuing her musical education at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music theory and composition. From 1960 to 1963 and from 1976 she taught piano and music theory at Rosary College in River Forest, Illinois. In addition to numerous church music works, Steffen also composed piano pieces and chamber music.

Works

  • Heard Across the Hall for piano
  • With a Hook and a Whirl for piano
  • Quam Dilecta Tabernacula Tua for three-part female choir
  • Golden Bells
  • Pioneer Priest , musical vignettes about the life of father Samuel Mazzuchelli
  • Songs from the Mazzuchelli Suite
  • Pioneer Priest
  • My Lover Belongs to Me and I to Him
  • Dance Carol for voice and piano
  • God, keep a clean wind blowing
  • Heard across the Hall for piano
  • How loveley is Your Dwelling Place for female choir and piano
  • I have a Dream for solo voice or female choir and piano
  • I thank You God for most this amazing for solo voice or female choir and piano
  • Let Nothing disturb Thee for voice and piano
  • Mass in Honor of St. Catherine of Siena
  • O sing a new song
  • Polka for Two (a la Stravinsky) for piano duo
  • Prince of Peace Mass
  • Sinsinawa for voice and piano
  • Sonata for Violin and Piano
  • St. Catherine's Prayer for voice and piano
  • St. Francis' Prayer for Peace , for voice and piano (2004)
  • Tarantella for voice and piano (text by Hilaire Belloc )
  • The Piper for voice and piano (text by Jeremy Finnegan )
  • Suite for piano
  • To Be near God for voice and piano
  • Your House is beautiful for solo voice or female choir and piano

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personal data
SURNAME Steffen, Cecil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2009
Place of death Hazel Green, Wisconsin