Mary worm

Mary Wurm , née Marie Josephine Agnes Wurm (born May 18, 1860 in Southampton , † January 21, 1938 in Munich ) was an English pianist, composer and conductor of German descent.

Wurm was the oldest of ten children of the music educators Johann Evangelist Wurm and Sophie Niggli . Three of her sisters, Alice , Adela and Mathilde , became pianists straight away, but took the name Verne . Mary Wurm took lessons from 1869 to 1877 at the Royal Conservatory for Music in Stuttgart with Ludwig Stark and Dionys Pruckner . From 1880 to 1882 she studied with Clara Schumann at the Hoch Conservatory , and also with Engelbert Humperdinck and Joachim Raff .

After successfully passing the exam in 1882, she continued her training with Charles Villiers Stanford , Arthur Sullivan and Frederick Bridge in London, and in 1886 with Carl Reinecke in Leipzig , financed by a Mendelssohn grant . An active and successful concert career followed in England and Germany, which was interrupted in 1896 by a tuberculosis disease. Two years later she performed again, and she also founded a women's orchestra, which, however, had to be dissolved again due to financial problems.

After 1900, Wurm took new piano lessons from Elisabeth Caland , a student of Ludwig Deppe , which enabled her to overcome an arm cramp. She reported on her experiences with the “Deppe-Caland teaching” in the publication “Practical Preschool for Caland Teaching. Preschool for Elisabeth Caland's 'Practical Course' from Elementary to Upper School ”(1914). She continued to perform as a pianist, advocated the dissemination of works by women composers, wrote numerous articles for the “Magazine of Music” and worked on an unpublished “Lexicon on Women Composers”.

Compositions

In addition to stage and orchestral works, Wurm's more than one hundred compositions also include vocal and chamber music, including an opera, two string quartets, two violin sonatas and a violoncello sonata, as well as numerous compositions for piano (études, fantasy pieces, a sonata, two sonatinas, a suite) .

RISM ( Répertoire International des Sources Musicales ), the international source lexicon, lists three major musical works under the name Mary JA Wurm online under RISM-OPAC , which are kept in the Berlin State Library :

Concert Overture, Op. 19, A minor
Piano concerto op. 21 in B minor
Opera in three acts The complicit , text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (determined)

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personal data
SURNAME	Worm, mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wurm, Marie Josephine Agnes (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English pianist, composer and conductor of German descent
DATE OF BIRTH	May 18, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH	Southampton
DATE OF DEATH	January 21, 1938
Place of death	Munich