Gertrude Hoag Spindle Wilson (March 1, 1888 – September 7, 1968)[1] was an American composer and pianist, born in Christiansburg, Virginia.[2] She studied music at Randolph Macon Woman's College and with Harry Rowe Shelley at the American Institute of Applied Music in New York City, where she earned a teacher's certificate.[3] She married Alfred Randolph Wilson in 1910[4] and had four children, then married Paul Winfred Kear in 1960.[5]

Wilson taught at the Blackstone Female Institute in Blackstone, Virginia, in 1906, then became the director of music at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, in 1909. She made several concert appearances as a solo pianist and as an accompanist. Her compositions were published by Harold Flammer, which was acquired by Shawnee Press, Inc., in 1970.[6]

Wilson's compositions included:

Chamber

  • quartets
  • 2, 3, and 4 part fugues for piano
  • trios

Vocal

  • “Kisses”
  • other songs

References

  1. ↑ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ↑ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Hennessee, Don A. (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. ↑ International Who's Who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918.
  4. ↑ World Who's who in Commerce and Industry. Institute for Research in Biography. 1957.
  5. ↑ "U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current - Ancestry.com". search.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  6. ↑ "Shawnee Press - About". www.shawneepress.com. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
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