Alberta N. Hall

There Was a Goose, words by L. Frank Baum, music by Alberta N. Hall. (Supplement to the New York World. July 22, 1900)

Alberta Grace Neiswanger Hall (November 10, 1870 – May 9, 1956), also known as Alberta N. Burton, was an American composer of children's songs and books.[1] She wrote musical settings for 26 poems in "The Songs of Father Goose" by L. Frank Baum in 1900.[2][3]

Her other works include musical settings for Lizette Woodworth Reese"[4] and Percy Blackmer, as well as her own original lyrics, and have been called "full of genuine melodic charm and no little skill of harmonic workmanship.[5]

Neiswanger was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Joseph Neiswanger and Marion Louise Paxson. She married George Eckart Hall in 1893 in Chicago.[6] They later divorced and in 1902 she married Edmund F. Burton,[7][8] a physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science.[9] She also converted to the religion.

She died in Concord, New Hampshire.[10]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Alberta N. Burton WorldCat Identities. Retrieved May 7, 2013
  2. ↑ "The Songs of Father Goose" Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013
  3. ↑ #6 Alberta N. Hall Archived 2012-08-25 at the Wayback Machine Libraries and Archives of the Autry. Retrieved May 7, 2013
  4. ↑ Lott, Blanche Rogers (18 June 1910). "Music". Los Angeles Graphic. p. 8.
  5. ↑ "New Music- Vocal and Instrumental". Musical America. Vol. 14, no. 13. Musical America Publications. 5 August 1911. p. 20.
  6. ↑ Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871–1920
  7. ↑ "Wedding Sequel to Oak Park Divorce". The Inter Ocean. 20 March 1902. p. 1.
  8. ↑ New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1831–1964
  9. ↑ Flower, B. O. Christian Science As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909) pp.78-91, see p. 89f for Aberta N. Burton. Twentieth Century Company, Boston. Retrieved May 6, 2013
  10. ↑ New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650–1969
  11. ↑ Burton, Alberta N. "The Fruits of the Garden" The Christian Science Journal (May 1909). Retrieved May 7, 2013
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  • Burton, Alberta N. Testimony Christian Science Sentinel Vol. 36, Issue 46. (July 14, 1934). Retrieved May 6, 2013
  • "Seven Songs from Out-of-Doors", copyright Alberta N. Burton, Dec. 15, 1942 Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3. (1943). Retrieved May 7, 2013
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