Alicia Van Buren

American composer

Alicia Keisker Van Buren (5 March 1860 – 11 April 1922) was an American composer,[1] singer,[2] painter,[3] and poet.[4]

Van Buren was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended public and unspecified private schools.[5] She married Albert Van Buren and they lived in Louisville[6] and Brookline, Massachusetts, spending the winters at their home in Florida.[3]

Albert Van Buren was a serious amateur painter who studied with marine artist Charles H. Woodbury.[3] In Brookline, the Van Burens socialized in artistic, literary, and musical circles, with composers Amy Beach and Helen Archibald Clarke, and with authors Oscar Fay Adams, Franz Bellinger, Abbie Farwell Brown, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, Louise Chandler Moulton, Josephine Preston Peabody, and James Whitcomb Riley.[7]

Van Buren's papers and correspondence are archived at Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute.[7] Her music was published by Breitkopf & Haertel.[8] Her books of poetry were published by Richard G. Badger's Gorham Press.[9] Her publications included:

## Books

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* As Thought is Led: Lyrics and Sonnets (1904)[9]
* Fireflies: Lyrics and Sonnets (1913)[9]

## Chamber

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* String Quartet[10]

## Orchestra

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* Daffodils: A Tone Poem[11]

## Vocal

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* "Afar"[12]
* Book of Songs[13]
* "Constancy"[8]
* Five Songs[8]
* "In Early Spring" (text by William Wordsworth)[9]
* "June Song"[8]
* "November" (text by John Townsend Trowbridge)[11]
* Six Songs[8]

## References

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1. ^ Mason, Daniel Gregory (1917). A dictionary-index of musicians (eds. F. H. Martens, M. W. Cochran, and W. D. Darby). National Society of Music.
2. ^ Herman, Kali; Tal, Kalí (1984). Women in Particular: An Index to American Women. Oryx Press. ISBN 978-0-89774-088-3.
3. ^ a b c Journal of Education. Boston University, School of Education. 1919.
4. ^ Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
5. ^ Laurence, Anya (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. R. Rosen Press.
6. ^ The Living Church. 1909.
7. ^ a b "Collection: Papers of Alicia Keisker Van Buren, 1889-1915 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
8. ^ a b c d e Cohen, Aaron (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. New York: Books & Music U.S.A. Inc. p. 714\. ISBN 0961748516.
9. ^ a b c d "Collection: Papers of Alicia Keisker Van Buren, 1889-1915 | HOLLIS for". hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
10. ^ Hyde, William De Witt (1911). Vocations: Music and public entertainment, ed. by H. Parker. Hall & Locke Company.
11. ^ a b "Van Buren, Alicia Keisker, 1860–1922. - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org. Retrieved 2021-04-18.
12. ^ Women Composers: A Biographical Handbook of Women's Work in Music. Chandler-Ebel. 1913.
13. ^ Herringshaw, Thomas William (1923). American Journalist and Author Blue Book. American Blue Book Publishers.