Louise Brown Verrill Explained

Louise Shurtleff Brown Verrill^[1] (23 March 187017 February 1948)^[2] was an American composer^[3] and pianist.

Verrill was born in Portland, Maine^[4] to Lewis F. and Mary Alice Abbott Brown. She studied piano and composition in Berlin and Dresden, then married Harry Mighels Verrill in 1895.^[5] They had five children.^[6]

Verrill's music was published by Louis H. Ross & Co. Her works include:^[7]

Piano

• Alone
• Birch Tree
• Chaconne
• Du bist wie eine Blume
• Exultation
• Four Moods of a Gnome
• Ghosts on Parade
• It Happened in Spain
• It is Spring
• Jennie Kissed Me
• Lonely Pine
• March of the Patriot
• Reverie
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Slumber Song ^[8]
• Tenderness
• Tone Pictures
• Tone Poem
• Walhalla
• Waltz
• When Shadows Fall
• Yellow Moon

Vocal

• "Pleasant Dreams"
• Winter Joy (solo and chorus)
• "You Came Like the Dawn" (music by Ivan McScod; text by Louise Brown Verrill)

External links

• Download free sheet music by Louise Brown Verrill

References

1. Web site: Deceased Dames Maiden Alpha A to B. 2021-03-18. www.magnacharta.org.
2. Book: Hixon, Donald L.. Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. 1993. Scarecrow Press. Don A. Hennessee. 0-8108-2769-7. 2nd. Metuchen, N.J.. 28889156.
3. Book: Directory of American Women Composers. 1970. National Federation of Music Clubs.. en.
4. Book: Stern, Susan. Women composers : a handbook. 1978. Scarecrow Press. 0-8108-1138-3. Metuchen, N.J.. 3844725.
5. News: 1964-08-31. Deaths (Published 1964). en-US. The New York Times. 2021-03-18. 0362-4331.
6. Web site: Verrill. Louise. ancestry.com. 16 Mar 2021.
7. Book: Cohen, Aaron I.. International encyclopedia of women composers. 1987. 0-9617485-2-4. Second edition, revised and enlarged. New York. 16714846.
8. Book: Laurence, Anya. Women of notes : 1,000 women composers born before 1900. 1978. R. Rosen Press. 0823904636. 1st. New York. 32. 3844781.