Alberta Grace Neiswanger Hall (November 10, 1870 – May 9, 1956), also known as Alberta N. Burton, was an American composer of children's songs and books.[1] She wrote musical settings for 26 poems in "The Songs of Father Goose" by L. Frank Baum in 1900.[2][3]
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Her other works include musical settings for Lizette Woodworth Reese and Percy Blackmer, as well as her own original lyrics, and have been called "full of genuine melodic charm and no little skill of harmonic workmanship."[4][5]
Neiswanger was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Joseph Neiswanger and Marion Louise Paxson. She married George Eckart Hall in 1893 in Chicago.[6] They later divorced. In 1902 in New Orleans, she married Edmund F. Burton,[7] a physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science.[8] She also converted to the religion.
She died in Concord, New Hampshire.[9]
Selected works
edit- The Song of Father Goose (1900) – with L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow
- The Fruits of the Garden (May 1909) – article in The Christian Science Journal[10]
- The Burro (1916) – arranged by Clarence C. Robinson
- New stories : (Community life), a second reader (1926) – with Marjorie Hardy and Matilda Breuer[1]
- Happy days out west for Littlebits (1927) – with Edith Janice Craine and Dorothy Lake Gregory
References
edit- ^ a b Alberta N. Burton WorldCat Identities. Retrieved May 7, 2013
- ^ "The Songs of Father Goose" Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013
- ^ #6 Alberta N. Hall Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Libraries and Archives of the Autry. Retrieved May 7, 2013
- ^ Clover, Sam T. (18 June 1910). Los Angeles Graphic - 1910-06-18.
- ^ Musical America 1911-08-05: Vol 14 Iss 13. Musical America Publications. 5 August 1911.
- ^ Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871–1920
- ^ New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1831–1964
- ^ Flower, B. O. Christian Science As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909) pp.78-91, see p. 89f for Aberta N. Burton. Twentieth Century Company, Boston. Retrieved May 6, 2013
- ^ New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650–1969
- ^ Burton, Alberta N. "The Fruits of the Garden" The Christian Science Journal (May 1909). Retrieved May 7, 2013
External links
edit- Burton, Alberta N. Testimony Christian Science Sentinel Vol. 36, Issue 46. (July 14, 1934). Retrieved May 6, 2013
- "Seven Songs from Out-of-Doors", copyright Alberta N. Burton, Dec. 15, 1942 Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3. (1943). Retrieved May 7, 2013
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