Mary Knight Wood
Mary Knight Wood Mason (17 April 1857 – 20 December 1944) was an American pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in Easthampton, Massachusetts,[1] the daughter of Lieutenant-governor, manufacturer and philanthropist Horatio G. Knight and Mary Ann Huntoon Knight. She was educated at Charlier Institute in New York and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, studying music with Karl Klauser, Benjamin Johnson Lang and Henry Holden Huss.
Knight married Charles Greenleaf Wood of Boston in 1879, and Alfred Bishop Mason of New York in 1914, after which she lived in New York City and summered at a cabin in the Catskill Mountains. She died in Florence, Italy. [2][3]
Works
Wood published about fifty songs. Selected works include:
- Afterward
- Thou
- Ashes of Roses (Words by Elaine Goodale)
- Thy Name
- Songs of Sleep
Her music has been recorded and issued on CD, including:
- Women at an Exposition: Music Composed by Women and Performed at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago Audio CD (July 27, 1993) Koch Int'l Classics, ASIN: B000001SH8
References
External links
- Sheet music for "Afterward", Oliver Ditson Company, 1896.
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- 1857 births
- 1944 deaths
- People from Easthampton, Massachusetts
- 19th-century classical composers
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century classical composers
- American female classical composers
- American classical composers
- Musicians from Massachusetts
- 19th-century American musicians
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs
