Blanche Ray Alden

Blanche Ray Alden (5 July 1870 – 1934) was a pianist and composer who published under the pseudonym Theodora Dutton. Her short piano piece Christmas Day Secrets is the only work in the Suzuki Piano Repertoire attributed to a female composer.

References

• Suzuki, Dr. Shinichi. (1995). Suzuki Piano School Volume 1, Revised edition. Alfred Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-87487-473-0
• Ccm :: Alden, Blanche Ray Alden - Dutton, Theodora Dutton at composers-classical-music.com

External links

• amazon.co.uk's list of once published scores by Theodora Dutton
• Scanned copy of letter Blanche Ray Alden wrote to Edvard Grieg in 1894

• Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge. The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass. Joel Munsell, Albany, NY, 1871, (accessed 13 February 2009), [1]. p. 1279