Mary Wurm

Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton – 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist and composer.^[1]

Mary Wurm
Mary Wurm
Born	Mary Josephine Agnes Würm 18 May 1860 Southampton
Died	21 January 1938(1938-01-21) (aged 77) Munich
Nationality	English
Occupation	Pianist
Relatives	Adela Verne (sister) Alice Verne-Bredt (sister) Mathilde Verne (sister) John Vallier (nephew)

Life and career

She was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied piano with Clara Schumann, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women's orchestra in Berlin.^[2][3] She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. Her nephew was John Vallier.

In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover.^[4]

Works

Selected works include:

• Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen
• Christkindleins Wiegenlied aus des Knaben Wunderhorn (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
• Wiegenlied im Sommer (Text: Robert Reinick)
• Praktische Vorschule zur Caland-Lehre, Hannover 1914

Further reading

Caland, Elisabeth Die Deppe’sche Lehre des Klavierspiels (1897; Repr. Wilhelmshaven, 2004). ISBN 3-7959-0854-X, trans. as Artistic Piano Playing as Taught by Ludwig Deppe (1901 Nashville, Reprint ISBN 9780344157028

Ydefeldt, Stefan, Die einfache runde Bewegung am Klavier: Bewegungsphilosophien um 1900 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die heutige Klaviermethodik, (2018) Augsburg: Wissner Verlag orig. Schwedisch, ISBN 978-3-95786-136-8

See also

• Mathilde Verne

External links

• Free scores by Mary Wurm at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)