CAMMACK, Amelie

Amelia Cammack, also found in European sources as Amélie Cammack, was an American composer active in New Orleans in the late nineteenth century. Although little biographical information about her life is currently documented, her surviving publications and catalogue entries show that she wrote both piano music and songs.
Cammack’s music was part of the lively musical culture of New Orleans, a city shaped by French, Spanish, Caribbean and American influences. Among her known works are Echoes from Mexican and Cuban Shores, published in 1891, and pieces such as Nobody’s Darling Waltz and Tears, which appeared in copyright catalogues in the early 1890s. Her song I Am Waiting Here My Love for Thee was published in New Orleans in 1894.
Her works suggest a composer engaged with the salon, popular and dance-music traditions of her time, including music for piano, violin and piano, and voice and piano. Although her biography remains obscure, Amelia Cammack’s surviving music places her among the women composers active in nineteenth-century American musical life.