Ethel Glenn Hier
American pianist and composer
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| Intro | American pianist and composer | |||||||||
| Places | United States of America | |||||||||
| was | Musician Composer Music educator Pianist Educator | |||||||||
| Work field | Academia Music | |||||||||
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| Birth | 25 June 1889, Madisonville, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, USA | |||||||||
| Death | 14 January 1971Winter Park, Orange County, Florida, USA (aged 81 years) | |||||||||
| Star sign | Cancer | |||||||||
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Biography
Ethel Glenn Hier (25 June 1889 – 14 January 1971) was an American composer, teacher and pianist of Scottish ancestry.
Life
Ethel Glenn Hier was born in Madisonville, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in piano in 1908. She continued her education in 1911 with composition classes, and in 1917 entered the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard).
After completing her studies, Hier worked as a composer and became a teacher of piano and composition in Cincinnati and then New York. She died in Winter Park, Florida.
Works
Selected works include:
- Carolina suite for orchestra
- Dreamin' town (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
- The bird in the rain (Text: Elinor Wylie)
- The Hour and the Return, song cycle (Text: Sara Teasdale)
- Down in the Glen
- If You Must Go, Go Quickly