Ruth Crawford Seeger - Springfield Cemetery - 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: WMRJXN
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.
Description: Composer, folklorist, author, educator
List of works from wikipedia:
Little Waltz, for piano, 1922
Piano Sonata, 1923
Theme and Variations, for piano, 1923
Little Lullaby, for piano, 1923
Jumping the Rope (Playtime), for piano, 1923
Caprice, for piano, 1923
Whirligig, for piano, 1923
Mr Crow and Miss Wren Go for a Walk (A Little Study in Short Trills), for piano, 1923
Kaleidoscopic Changes on an Original Theme, Ending with a Fugue, for piano, 1924
Five Canons, for piano, 1924
Piano Preludes No. 1–5, 1924–25
Adventures of Tom Thumb, 1925
Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1926
Two Movements for Chamber Orchestra (Music for Small Orchestra), 1926
We Dance Together, for piano, 1926
Piano Preludes No. 6–9, 1927–28 (corrected version)
Suite No.1, for five wind instruments and piano, 1927, rev. 1929
Suite No. 2, for four strings and piano, 1929
Five Songs to Poems by Carl Sandburg: Home Thoughts, White Moon, Joy, Loam, Sunsets, 1929
Piano Study in Mixed Accents (three versions), 1930
Four Diaphonic Suites: No.1 for oboe or flute, No.2 for bassoon and cello (or two cellos), No.3 for two clarinets, No.4 for oboe (or viola) and cello, 1930
Three Chants for Female Chorus: To an Unkind God, To an Angel, To a Kind God, 1930
Three Songs to poems by Carl Sandburg, for contralto, piano, oboe, percussion and optional orchestra: Rat Riddles, Prayers of Steel, In Tall Grass, 1930-1932
String Quartet, 1931
Andante for Strings (after String Quartet Slow Movement), 1931 ?
Two Ricercare to poems by H.T. Tsiang: Sacco, Vanzetti; Chinaman, Laundryman, 1932
The Love at the Harp, 1932
Nineteen American Folk Songs for Piano, 1936-1938
Rissolty, Rossolty, 1939-1941
American Folk Songs for Children, 1948
Animal Folk Songs for Children, 1950
Suite for Wind Quintet, 1952
American Folk Songs for Christmas, 1953
Date of birth: 07/31/1901
Date of death: 11/18/1953
Area of notoriety: Education
Marker Type: Horizontal Marker
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours
Fee required?: No
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