Gertrude Martin Rohrer
Gertrude Jane Martin Rohrer (25 December 1875 – 22 January 1968) was an American author and composer who wrote many songs, including the state song of Pennsylvania, a book, and at least one operetta. She was active in several music clubs.[1][2][3]
Rohrer was born in Indiana to Lucretia Mott McIntosh and the Reverend Daniel Cargill Martin. She graduated from Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania) in 1896 and her works are archived there.[4] She married Frederick Findlay Rohrer and they had one son.[5]
Rohrer’s songs were recorded by Victor Records (BVE-3514) and Columbia Records (W148742).[6] She belonged to the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs, the Manuscript Music Society (Pittsburgh) and served as president of the Tuesday Musical Club (Pittsburgh).[2][7][8][9]
Rohrer self-published some songs. Others were published by Eldridge Entertainment House Inc., G.M. Demarest, J. Fischer & Brother, the National Federation of Music Clubs, Theodore Presser Company, and Volkwein Brothers.[3][10] They include:
Operetta[edit]
- Playroom at Night[10]
Prose[edit]
- Music and Musicians of Pennsylvania (a book compiled by Rohrer)[2]
- My Garden (a poem)[8]
- Toy Shop: a Christmas Play[11]
Vocal[edit]
- “Boy of Mine”[3]
- “Collect” (text by Mary Stewart)[3]
- “Collect of the National Federation of Music Clubs” (three women’s voices and piano)[3]
- “From My Window”[12]
- “Home Again”[6]
- “Home from School”[3]
- “I Miss You” (text by Scottie McKenzie Frasier)[12]
- If I Were a Fairy (three women’s voice and piano)[3]
- Light (three women’s voices)[13]
- “Love’s on the Highway”[14]
- “Memories”[15]
- “My Little House” (text by Nancy B. Turner)[3]
- “New Colossus”[3]
- “Pennsylvania Juniors”[3]
- “Results and Roses” (text by Edgar A. Guest)[16]
- “Sleepy Song” (text by Charles Buxton Going)[17]
- “Soul of Song” (text by Lillie Reed Zortman)[3]
- “Spirit of England” (text by Alma Phillips)[12]
- Wood-nymph (mixed quartet; text by Leonora Speyer)[18]
- “Your Land and My Land” (text by George M. Demarest)[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers. Books & Music (USA). p. 597. ISBN 978-0-9617485-0-0.
- ^ a b c Rohrer, Gertrude Martin; Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs (1940). Music and musicians of Pennsylvania / compiled under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs by Gertrude Martin Rohrer. Susquehanna County Historical Society & Free Library Association. Philadelphia : Theodore Presser Co.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Pittsburgh Sheet Music Collection". Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ "The Gertrude Martin Rohrer Collection 1904-1957". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ "Gertrude Martin Rohrer - Ancestry.com". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ a b "Gertrude Martin Rohrer". Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ a b Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1953). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series.
- ^ a b American Poetry Magazine. Clara Catherine Prince. 1919.
- ^ Stern, Susan (1978). Women composers: a handbook. Metuchen, N.J: Scarecrow Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8108-1138-6.
- ^ a b Music Supervisors' Journal. National Conference of Music Supervisors. 1926.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1918). Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b c "Inventory of the Christopher A. Reynolds Collection of Women's Song". oac.cdlib.org. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1935.
- ^ Association, Music Teachers National (1924). Volume of Proceedings.
- ^ Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 61. ISBN 978-0-8161-8498-9.
- ^ Giddings, Thaddeus Philander; Baldwin, Ralph Lyman; Earhart, Will; Newton, Elbridge Ward (1924). Three-part Music. Ginn.
- ^ "Gertrude Martin Rohrer Song Texts | LiederNet". www.lieder.net. Retrieved 2024-04-03.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1926). Catalog of Copyright Entries. Fourth Series. Copyright Office, Library of Congress.