Kathleen Lockhart Manning

Kathleen Lockhart Manning ( born October 24, 1890 in Hollywood, † March 20, 1951 in Los Angeles ) was an American composer.

Lockhart showed early her musical talent and began playing the piano and composing at the age of five years. She made world travel and studied in 1908 Moritz Moszkowski piano and composition. In the 1911/12 season she appeared in London with the Hammerstein Opera Companie.

Shortly before the First World War she returned to the United States. Her marriage to the industrialist Ned Manning made ​​them financially independent so that they could devote himself entirely to composition. She composed mainly of songs, along with an opera - was staged by the Metropolitan Opera Company - the first composed by a woman opera.

Works

  • Vignettes, song cycle
  • Sketches of London, song cycle
  • Sketches of New York, song cycle
  • Japanese Ghost songs, song cycle
  • Chinese impressions, song cycle
  • Two Sketches of Childhood
  • The Tale Told the Garden
  • American composer
  • Woman
  • Born in 1890
  • Died in 1951
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