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KORN, Clara Anna

Name: KORN, Clara Anna (1866–1940)

Musical genre: Orchestral, Chamber Music, Opera/Musical Theatre/Dance/Stage, Vocal Music/Art Songs, Solo Instrument

Country of birth: Germany


Notes:

  Clara Anna Korn née Gerlach was born in Berlin. At the age of three, she was taken to the USA and grew up in New Jersey. She studied music in New York at The National Conservatory, initially under Horatio Parker and Bruno Klein and later under Anton Dvorak. It is said that Tchaikovsky having seen some of her compositions wrote and urged her to pursue a career as a composer.

For a period she was head of the music department at the De Bauer School of Music, New York. Later in life she settled in Brooklyn as a music teacher.

LIST OF WORKS

Orchestral
Symphony in C minor
Symphonic poem, Morpheus
Suite for orchestra, Ancient Dances
Suite for orchestra, Rural Snapshots
Piano Concerto
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Violin Concerto

Chamber
Violin suite Op.10

Piano
Piano Sonata 'The Nautical' Op.14 1911
'Gymnasium' March pub. by Presser
'Swinging' pub. by Presser

Song
Album of nine songs: Little Fellow, The Miller's Daughter, Farewell, Legend, A Recollection, The Brook, Cease, Love Story, My Fair One. pub. by Breitkopf & Hartel

Opera
'Our Last War' also listed as 'Their Last War'




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