Lydia Kunz Venth (1858 – 23 May 1931)[1] was an American composer[2] and pianist.[3]

Venth was born in Pennsylvania to John Jacob and Henrietta Schlatter Kunz. She was a largely self-taught pianist and composer[4] who married violinist Carl Venth when she was 18 years old. They had a daughter named Elsa,[5] and later divorced.

Lydia and Carl established the Venth Music School in Brooklyn in 1888. Lydia worked as an accompanist[6][7] and taught piano at the school and privately after she and Carl divorced.[8] He remarried in 1899 and moved to Texas.[9]

Lydia's compositions[10] for piano and organ include:

References

  1. Venth, Lydia Kunz (25 May 1931). "Obituary". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  2. Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  3. Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  4. Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  5. Venth, Lydia Kunz (1931). "ancestry.com". Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  6. The Musical Yearbook of the United States. G.H. Wilson. 1891.
  7. The Citizen Almanac. Brooklyn Citizen. 1893.
  8. Spillane, Daniel (1890). History of the American Pianoforte: Its Technical Development, and the Trade. D. Spillane.
  9. Venth, Carl (30 Jan 1938). "Obituary". New York Times. Retrieved 24 Mar 2021.
  10. Musical Courier. 1903.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sutro, Florence Edith Clinton (1895). Women in Music and Law. Author's Publishing Company.
  12. Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of notes : 1,000 women composers born before 1900 (1st ed.). New York: R. Rosen Press. ISBN 0823904636. OCLC 3844781.
  13. Ebel, Otto (1910). Les femmes compositeurs de musique: dictionnaire biographique (in French). P. Rosier.
  14. Music for the Orchestrelle & Aeolian Grand. Aeolian Company. 1901.
  15. 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)


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