SHEPPARD, Madelyn
Name:
SHEPPARD, Madelyn (b. 1896)
Musical genre:
Film/TV & Multimedia, Opera/Musical Theatre/Dance/Stage, Vocal Music/Art Songs
Country of birth:
United States
Country of location:
United States
Notes:
Madelyn Sheppard was an American pianist, singer, and composer from Selma, Alabama. She frequently collaborated with lyricist Annelu Burns on spirituals and blues songs, including creating music for the theater and film industries.
She composed the score for the 1922 Broadway musical, Just Because, which "may well have been the first full-length Broadway musical authored entirely by women", according to the Library of Congress.
She also wrote music for The Greatest Game in Town by Dorothy Looker with lyrics and choreography by Evelyn Davis
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