Susannah Armstrong Coleman Collection, 1912-1953
Span: 1912-1953
Bulk: 1930-1949
English
collection
1 ft.
3 boxes
Susannah Armstrong Coleman (1897-1985) was an American pianist, composer and teacher. Born in Chicago, Coleman began her musical studies locally with Hilda Brown before earning a bachelor's degree at the Northwestern University School of Music in 1919. There she studied piano with Victor Garwood, Josef Lhevinne, and Arne Oldberg, the latter with whom she also studied composition. She continued her piano studies abroad with Artur Schnabel from 1924-1925. Between 1930 and 1946, Coleman composed extensively while in summer residence on fellowship at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She moved to New York in 1934 and married former Colony Fellow Laurence Vail Coleman four years later. The couple spent the remainder of their lives in the Washington, D.C. and Charlottesville, Virginia, areas while also travelling extensively throughout Europe and the Carribean. Over the course of her lifetime, Susannah Coleman won prizes for numerous compositions, including awards from Mu Phi Epsilon for her Blue Symphony and Mother Goose Suite.
Music manuscripts, organizational publications, correspondence, programs, photographs, biographical notes, clippings, and miscellaneous items.
Susannah Armstrong Coleman Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Coleman, Susannah Armstrong
Papers documenting the life of American pianist, composer, and teacher Susannah Armstrong Coleman.
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Women Composers
Women in the Performing Arts
Coleman, Susannah Armstrong
Oldberg, Arne
Pi Kappa Lambda
Mu Phi Epsilon
ML31.C65
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009014
IHAS
110201
loc.natlib.scdb.200033712