Kathleen Lockhart Manning
Kathleen Lockhart Manning
Kathleen Lockhart Manning (24 October 1890 – 20 March 1951) was an American composer. She was born on a ranch in Hollywood, California, and studied piano and composition in Paris with Moritz Moszkowski, and later with Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger and de Sales. She sang during the 1911-1912 season with the Hammerstein Opera Company in London and also performed in the United States. After her husband died in 1938, she suffered from mental illness.[1] She died in Los Angeles.[2][3]
Works
Lockhart was noted for vocal compositions and wrote her own text. Selected works include:
- Sketches of Paris song cycle
- Sketches of New York, song cycle
- Operetta in Mozartian Style
- For the Soul of Rafael
- Japanese Ghost Songs
- Chinese Impressions
- Two Sketches of Childhood
- The Tale the Garden Told
- Autumn Leaves
- Nostalgia
- The Truant
- Chinois
- Prayer
- Departed[4]
Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- To The Mart Of Dreams: Songs By Kathleen Lockhart Manning, Vol. 1
References
- ↑ Kathleen Lockhart Manning, retrieved 1 May 2014
- ↑ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 5 January 2011.
- ↑ Howard, John Tasker (1965). Our American music: a comprehensive history from 1620 to the present.
- ↑ "To The Mart Of Dreams". Retrieved 5 January 2011.
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