| 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, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland 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] She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. 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:
Caland, Elisabeth Die Deppe’sche Lehre des Klavierspiels (1897; Repr. Wilhelmshaven, 2004). ISBN 3-7959-0854-X, trans. as Artistic Piano Playing as Taught by Ludwig Deppe (1901 Nashville, Reprint ISBN 9780344157028
Ydefeldt, Stefan, Die einfache runde Bewegung am Klavier: Bewegungsphilosophien um 1900 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die heutige Klaviermethodik, (2018) Augsburg: Wissner Verlag orig. Schwedisch, ISBN 978-3-95786–136-8