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Nannie Louise Wright (June 30, 1879 – March 16, 1958) was an American composer, pianist, and teacher born in Fayette, Missouri.[1]^{[better source needed]} 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.[2] She returned to Fayette to become the Director of Music at Howard- Payne College in 1909.[3] 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.[1]

Her compositions include:[2]

Orchestra

• Piano Concerto, opus 42 (also arranged for two pianos)[3]

Piano

• Acrobatic Stunts (1949)[4]
• Air de Ballet[5]
• American Indian Sketches, opus 63 (1921)[6]
• At Evening, opus 38[7]
• Autumn, Winter, Spring[3]
• Banjo, opus 74 no. 4
• Banjo Picker[8]
• Bee and the Clover
• Bell
• Bells Across the Valley (1953)[9]
• Birds, opus 36 no. 3
• Circus Parade, opus 30 no. 1
• Concert Study in C Major (1924)[6]
• Dance of the Brownies, opus 98, no. 2
• Glory to God (1953)[9]
• Grandmother's Minuet, opus 98 no. 1
• Happy and Gay (1949)[4]
• Hop, Skip and Play (1953)[9]
• Humoresque
• Ice Skating (1949)[4]
• In Springtime, opus 36[7] Jaunty Ride (1949)[4]
• Juggler
• March, opus 22
• March of the Boy Scouts, opus 74 no. 1
• Melody in e minor (1949)[4]
• Miniature Etudes, opus 71
• Night Song
• Orchard Swing (1942)[6]
• Pieces, opus 24
• Plantation Dance, opus 98 no. 3
• Prelude, opus 25 no. 1
• Roller Coaster (1953)[9]
• Rondo, opus 4 no. 1
• Scarf Dance[7]
• Scherzo (1953)[9]
• Serenade, opus 14
• Seven Melodious Pieces[10]
• Six Little Pieces, opus 24[7]
• Thoughts at Twilight (1949)[4]
• Twelve Etudes
• Twelve Preludes (1915)[10]
• Valse Poetique (1953)[9]
• Veil Dance[10]
• Venetian Serenade
• Waltz[10]

References

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