Mary Wurm | |
Birth Name: | Mary Josephine Agnes Würm |
Birth Date: | 18 May 1860 |
Birth Place: | Southampton |
Death Place: | Munich |
Nationality: | English |
Relatives: | Adela Verne (sister) Alice Verne-Bredt (sister) Mathilde Verne (sister) John Vallier (nephew) |
Occupation: | Pianist |
Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton - 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist and composer.[1]
She was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied piano with Clara Schumann and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women's orchestra in Berlin.[2] [3] Her nephew was John Vallier.
In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover.[4]
Selected works include: