Mary Grant Carmichael Explained

Mary Grant Carmichael (185117 March 1935) was an English composer. She was born in Birkenhead near Liverpool, and may have been of Irish parentage. She was educated in France and Switzerland later studied music in Munich. After completing her education, she worked as a pianist and accompanist and died in London.^{[1] [2]}

Works

Carmichael was known as a composer of songs and piano pieces. Selected works include:

• Cradle song (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake)
• Infant Joy (Text: William Blake)
• Introduction to the Songs of Innocence (Text: William Blake)
• It is the hour (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Merrily flute and loudly (in Three Lyrics (first set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
• Mona spinning (Text: Alice Cary), published in The Girl's Own Paper (1886)^[3]
• My faint spirit, op. 12 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• So loved and so loving, op. 8 no. 1 (in Three Lyrics (second set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
• Sweetheart, sigh no more (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• The blossom (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake)^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the United States. registration. Fuller, Sophie. 1994.
2. Book: The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. Julie Anne. Sadie. Rhian. Samuel. 1994. W. W. Norton & Company . 9780393034875. 4 October 2010.
3. https://www.victorianvoices.net/ARTICLES/GOP/Music/1886-MonaSpinning.pdf Victorian Voices archive
4. Web site: Composer: Mary Grant Carmichael (1851-1935). 19 January 2011. dead. https://archive.today/20160621142437/http://www.lieder.net/lieder/c/carmichael.html. 21 June 2016.