- Carmichael, Mary Grant
[E] Carmichael, Mary Grant, pianist and
composer, born at Birkenhead. Pupil of the
Academy for the higher development of piano-
forte playing, where her teachers were Oscar
Beringer, Walter Bache, and Fritz Hartvigsou ;
pupil of E. Prout for harmony and compo-
sition. As a pianist she has appeared chiefly
as an accompanist, at the Monday Popular
Concerts, 1884-5, and elsewhere ; but she is
more widely known as a composer. Her
works include many songs, among which may
be named " Sing Song," twenty rhymes by C.
Rossetti ; " The Stream," a series of connected
vocal pieces in the manner of a Liederkreis,
produced at the l^yric Club, November, 1887;
The Flower of the Vale ; The Tryst, etc.
Duets : A poor soul sat sighing, Who is Sylvia ?
Daybreak, and others. A suite for pf. Duet
(1880) and smaller Tpi. compositions. She has
also written an oi^eretta, " The Snow Queen,"
and is now engaged on sacred compositions
in large forms. Translator of A. Ehrlich's
"Celebrated Pianists of the Past and Present,"
London: Grevel, 1894.entry id: 78-R-57
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