Harriet Ware (composer)

Harriet Ware was born in Waupun, Wisconsin, the daughter of Silas Edward Ware and Emily Sperry Ware. She showed musical promise from an early age,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20812807/harriet_ware_krumbhaar_1962/ "Harriet Ware, Musician, Noted Pianist, Composer"] Courier-News (February 10, 1962): 20. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} and graduated from Pillsbury Conservatory of Music in 1895, with further studies in Paris and Berlin.John William Leonard, ed., [https://books.google.com/books?id=aHUEAAAAYAAJ&dq=Harriet+Ware+Krumbhaar&pg=PA854 Woman's Who's Who of America] (American Commonwealth Company 1914): 854.

Harriet Ware composed songs, choral works, piano pieces, and at least one opera, Undine.[https://books.google.com/books?id=39pEAQAAMAAJ&dq=Harriet%20Ware%20Krumbhaar&pg=PA238 The Musical Blue Book of America] (Musical Blue Book Corporation 1922): 238. Her "Hindu Slumber Song" (1909) and Call of Râdha (1909) were settings of poems by Sarojini Naidu. She also wrote settings of poems by Thomas Moore, Edwin Markham, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Richard Lovelace, Bayard Taylor, Joyce Kilmer,[https://books.google.com/books?id=pjg_AQAAMAAJ&dq=Harriet+Ware+music&pg=RA16-PA35 "Imprisoning the Fragrance of the Fields in the Lyric Language"] Musical America (April 23, 1921): 35. and Marie Van Vorst. She also wrote musical plays, The Morning Glory and The Varying Shore, both with Zoë Akins.[https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8h132ss/dsc/ Zoë Akins Papers: Finding Aid], Huntington Library, Manuscripts Department.

Her "Women's Triumphal March" was the official song of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1929, and her setting of Daniel A. Poling's poem "The Rose is Red" was the song of the American Mothers Association.Christine Ammer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=W-JcDQAAQBAJ&dq=Harriet+Ware+music&pg=PT180 Unsung: A History of Women in American Music] (2016). {{ISBN|9781483577005}} Harriet Ware's works were especially popular in programs of American song, or in programs focused on women composers.[https://books.google.com/books?id=I0c0AQAAMAAJ&q=Eversman&pg=RA14-PA28 "Feminist Note in Rubinstein Concert"] Musical America (March 3, 1917): 28.[https://books.google.com/books?id=7SIqQHZL2_wC&q=Harriet+Ware+&pg=RA12-PA37 "Scenes at Harriet Ware's Summer School"] Musical Courier (October 2, 1919): 37.

Harriet Ware saw the importance of women's clubs in supporting the arts, saying "Musicians do well to pin their faith to these aggregations of 'the people' rather than to the wealth or social influence of a few."[https://books.google.com/books?id=I0c0AQAAMAAJ&q=Eversman&pg=RA21-PA29 "American Slight American Songs, Says Harriet Ware"] Musical America (April 28, 1917): 29. She was a founder and leader of the Musical Art Society of Long Island.[https://books.google.com/books?id=pjg_AQAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Ware&pg=PA44 "Club Which She Founded Entertains for Harriet Ware"] Musical America (January 1, 1921): 44. During World War I the society gave a concert of Ware's music, to benefit local wives and children of soldiers.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Gk80AQAAMAAJ&dq=Harriet%20Ware%20Krumbhaar&pg=RA5-PA27 "Ware Concert Aids Soldiers' Families"] Musical America (June 26, 1917): 27. She also served on the advisory council of the New York Music School Settlement.Anne Prince, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MDkR4BSU0YUC&dq=Harriet%20Ware%20Krumbhaar&pg=PA340 "The Music School Settlement and Activities"] Musical Monitor (May 1920): 340. She was also active with the Musical Alliance of the United States, and served on a jury for the organization's national Girl Scout songwriting competition in 1918, along with composers Amy Beach, Gena Branscombe, Fay Foster and Margaret Ruthven Lang.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Ware&pg=PA269 "Mabel Daniels Winner of Girl Scouts Song Contest"] Musical America (September 21, 1918): 19.

As a pianist, she toured in the American South in 1920.[https://books.google.com/books?id=y-w6AQAAMAAJ&dq=Harriet%20Ware%20Krumbhaar&pg=RA17-PA56 "Tributes for Ware as Composer-Pianist"] Musical Courier (April 22, 1920): 56. In 1937 she was touring the western United States,[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20812538/harriet_ware_krumbhaar_1937/ "On Concert Tour Through West"] Courier-News (May 15, 1937): 9. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} giving classes, interviews, and lectures, as well as performances. She heard one of her works conducted at the Hollywood Bowl by Hidemaro Konoye.[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20812600/harriet_ware_krumbhaar_1937/ "Harriet Ware Returns Musical Triumph"] Courier-News (October 16, 1937): 5. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} For several years she ran a summer music school in Plainfield, New Jersey.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qUc0AQAAMAAJ&q=Harriet+Ware&pg=RA7-PA6 "Widespread Interest in Harriet Ware's Summer School"] Musical America (June 22, 1918): 6.

From 1926, she ran her own music publishing house, and was a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).

Harriet Ware married a chemical engineer, Hugh Montgomery Krumbhaar, in 1913; the bridal air she wrote for the cantata Sir Oluf was played at their wedding ceremony, and David Bispham sang her song "How Do I Love Thee?"."Composer Weds, Her Music Played" New York Times (December 9, 1913): 11. {{ProQuest| }}John William Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WZJDV5f3DUoC&dq=Harriet+Ware+Krumbhaar&pg=RA3-PA2969 Who's who in America] (A.N. Marquis 1920): 2969. She was widowed in 1950 and died in New York City in 1962, aged 84 years."Harriet Ware, Concert Pianist and Composer, is Dead at 84" New York Times (February 11, 1962): 86. {{ProQuest| }}

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• [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/57681291/harriet-krumbhaar Harriet Ware's gravesite], on Find a Grave.
• [http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ware,_Harriet Harriet Ware compositions at IMSLP], Petrucci Music Library.

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