Ruth Crawford Seeger - Springfield, MA
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Ruth Crawford Seeger was notable American composer and later a became equally famous for her arrangements and interpretations of American traditional folk songs. Her grave is located along Althea Path in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, MA.
Waymark Code: WMRJXM
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 07/01/2016
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Ruth Crawford was born on July 31, 1901 in East Liverpool, Ohio. In 1921 she earned a teaching certificate from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. She moved to New York and began studying musical composition with Charles Seeger, whom she married in 1932. Folksinger Pete Seeger is her adopted son and folksingers Peggy and Mike Seeger her natural children.
During the 1920's and 1930's Ruth became America's most prominent female composer as a member of a group of American composers known as the "Ultramoderns." In 1936 the Seeger family moved to Washington, D.C. to work collect folk songs for the Library of Congress.
In 1948, Ruth Crawford Seeger published her pioneering collection, American Folk Songs for Children which was designed for use by elementary school children. This book along with Animal Folk Songs for Children, (1950) and American Folk Songs for Christmas, (1953), are widely adopted and regarded as the primary texts in elementary school music education.
Ruth Crawford Seeger's career was cut short by cancer. She died at the age of 52 on November 18, 1953. She is buried along narrow, wooded, terraced path on a steep hillside in Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, MA.
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