Mary Wurm

She was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice Verne-Bredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied piano with Clara Schumann, Joachim Raff, Elisabeth Caland and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women's orchestra in Berlin.{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/public/page/womentimeline|accessdate=3 October 2010|title=Timelines in Music History}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&dq=Mary+J.+A.+Wurm+norton+grove&pg=PA474|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |isbn=9780393034875|accessdate=4 October 2010}} She wrote a piano school according to Caland´s teachings. Her nephew was John Vallier.

In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover.{{cite web|title=Mary Wurm (1860–1938)|url=http://www.schumann-portal.de/1382.html|website=Schumann-portal.de|publisher=Schumann Portal|accessdate=17 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217175848/http://www.schumann-portal.de/1382.html|archive-date=17 December 2014|url-status=dead}}

Selected works include:

• Mag auch heiss das Scheiden brennen
• Christkindleins Wiegenlied aus des Knaben Wunderhorn (Text: Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
• Wiegenlied im Sommer (Text: Robert Reinick)
• Praktische Vorschule zur Caland-Lehre, Hannover 1914

Caland, Elisabeth Die Deppe’sche Lehre des Klavierspiels (1897; Repr. Wilhelmshaven, 2004). {{ISBN|3-7959-0854-X}}, trans. as Artistic Piano Playing as Taught by Ludwig Deppe (1901 Nashville, Reprint {{ISBN|9780344157028}}

Ydefeldt, Stefan, Die einfache runde Bewegung am Klavier: Bewegungsphilosophien um 1900 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die heutige Klaviermethodik, (2018) Augsburg: Wissner Verlag orig. Schwedisch, {{ISBN|978-3-95786-136-8}}

• Mathilde Verne

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