Mildred Josephine Cozzens Ewald Turner (February 23, 1897 – June 9, 1992)[1][2] was an American composer,[3] pianist, and singer who published her music under the name Mildred Cozzens Turner.[4]

Biography

Turner was born in Pueblo, Colorado,[5] to Harmon and J. Wehrhane Cozzens.[6] She married Louis Ewald in 1917, then married Huntington[7] McDonald Turner in 1934.[2]

Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music and also studied in Geneva, Switzerland. Her teachers included Emil Leibling, William Benton Overstreet[8] and Corneille and Francis Schwinger.[9]

Turner sang with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted a boys' orchestra and worked as a public school supervisor in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, before moving to New York, where she was living when she married Huntington McDonald Turner in 1934. Her extensive overseas travels inspired many of her songs.[8]

Turner was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Her LP recordings included CAPIT T 1152 and DECCA 9 31057. In addition to songs she wrote for amateur theater,[8] her vocal compositions included:

References

  1. ^ Greene, Frank (1985). Composers on Record: An Index to Biographical Information on 14,000 Composers Whose Music Has Been Recorded. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1816-3.
  2. ^ a b Turner, Mildred Cozzens Ewald (1934). "ancestry.com". Retrieved May 8, 2021.
  3. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
  4. ^ Anderson, Ruth (1976). Contemporary American composers : a biographical dictionary. Boston: G.K. Hall. ISBN 0-8161-1117-0. OCLC 2035024.
  5. ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.
  6. ^ Who's Who of American Women. Marquis Who's Who. 1973. ISBN 978-0-8379-0409-2.
  7. ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women Composers: A Checklist of Works for the Solo Voice. G.K. Hall. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.((cite book)): CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ a b c Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1996). Women composers and songwriters : a concise biographical dictionary. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-585-03162-2. OCLC 42329817.
  10. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries. Library of Congress. 1936.
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