Calvin Woolsey
Calvin Woolsey | |
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Birth name | Calvin Lee Woolsey |
Born | December 26, 1883[1] Tinney's Point, Missouri, U.S.[2] |
Died | November 12, 1946[2] Braymer, Missouri, U.S.[2] |
Genres | Ragtime |
Occupation(s) | Physician, composer and pianist |
Instrument | Piano |
Years active | 1909 – 1918 |
Calvin Woolsey (December 26, 1883 – November 12, 1946) was an American composer, pianist, and physician.
Biography
[edit]Woolsey was the middle of three children born to Napoleon and Gertrude Woolsey. Woolsey was a descendant of George (Joris) Woolsey, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam, and Thomas Cornell.[3]
Woolsey was raised in Tinney Grove, Missouri, just south of the city of Braymer. He earned a medical degree from the University of Missouri and did his post-graduate work at Harvard Medical School. He joined the Army Medical Corps during World War I and attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant.[1]
He composed rags in the folk ragtime style that was popular around 1900. He sold two of these to Jerome H. Remick and self-published several others. He also published a waltz and a march.
He died at home, in 1946, of a coronary thrombosis.[1]
Compositions
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Medic_Rag.png)
- "Funny Bones" (rag, 1909)
- "Dissatisfied" (1910)
- "Poison Rag" (1910)
- "Medic Rag" (1910)
- "Peroxide Rag" (1910)
- "Mashed Potatoes" (rag, 1911)
- "Bill Johnson" (1912)
- "Purple and White" (march, 1913)
- "Lover's Lane Glide" (rag, 1914)
- "Hearts Across The Sea" (waltz, 1918)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Edwards, Bill. "Calvin Lee Woolsey". Retrieved September 18, 2012.
- ^ a b c Jasen, David A.; Trebor Jay Tichenor (1978). Rags and Ragtime: A Musical History. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc. pp. 61–64. ISBN 0-486-25922-6.
- ^ Cornell, Thomas Clapp Adam and Anne Mott: their ancestors and their descendants. A.V. Haight, 1890 Retrieved November 10, 2013
External links
[edit]- 1883 births
- 1946 deaths
- American male composers
- American composers
- People from Ray County, Missouri
- Ragtime composers
- American pianists
- University of Missouri alumni
- United States Army Medical Corps officers
- United States Army personnel of World War I
- Cornell family
- Woolsey family
- American male pianists
- 20th-century American male musicians
- Harvard Medical School people