Nannie Louise Wright facts for kids

Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 – March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher born in Fayette, Missouri. She graduated from Howard-Payne Junior College in Fayette and the Columbia School of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Wright studied piano with Mary Wood Chase in Chicago and with Josef Lhévinne in Berlin. She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909. Later, she served as President of the Missouri State Music Teachers' Association and as Dean of Music at Central Methodist University's Swinney Conservatory of Music in Fayette.

Her compositions include:

Orchestra

• Piano Concerto, opus 42 (also arranged for two pianos)

Piano

• Acrobatic Stunts (1949)
• Air de Ballet
• American Indian Sketches, opus 63 (1921)
• At Evening, opus 38
• Autumn, Winter, Spring
• Banjo, opus 74 no. 4
• Banjo Picker
• Bee and the Clover
• Bell
• Bells Across the Valley (1953)
• Birds, opus 36 no. 3
• Circus Parade, opus 30 no. 1
• Concert Study in C Major (1924)
• Dance of the Brownies, opus 98, no. 2
• Glory to God (1953)
• Grandmother's Minuet, opus 98 no. 1
• Happy and Gay (1949)
• Hop, Skip and Play (1953)
• Humoresque
• Ice Skating (1949)
• In Springtime, opus 36 Jaunty Ride (1949)
• Juggler
• March, opus 22
• March of the Boy Scouts, opus 74 no. 1
• Melody in e minor (1949)
• Miniature Etudes, opus 71
• Night Song
• Orchard Swing (1942)
• Pieces, opus 24
• Plantation Dance, opus 98 no. 3
• Prelude, opus 25 no. 1
• Roller Coaster (1953)
• Rondo, opus 4 no. 1
• Scarf Dance
• Scherzo (1953)
• Serenade, opus 14
• Seven Melodious Pieces
• Six Little Pieces, opus 24
• Thoughts at Twilight (1949)
• Twelve Etudes
• Twelve Preludes (1915)
• Valse Poetique (1953)
• Veil Dance
• Venetian Serenade
• Waltz