Alfred Dudley Turner

Alfred Dudley Turner
Alfred Dudley Turner
Born(1854-08-24)August 24, 1854
St. Albans (city), Vermont
DiedMay 7, 1888(1888-05-07) (aged 33)
Auburn, Maine
Resting placeVillage Cemetery, St. Albans (city), Vermont
NationalityAmerican
OccupationComposer

Alfred Dudley Turner (24 August 1854 – 7 May 1888)[1] was an American educator and composer.

He was born in St. Albans, Vermont.[2] After displaying unusual musical ability, as a child he went to Boston to study piano at the New England Conservatory, where his teachers included J. C. D. Parker and Madeline Schiller.[3]

Turner was an 1876 graduate of Boston University College of Music.[4] He became an instructor at the New England Conservatory. Among his students were Charles Dennée and Frank Addison Porter.[3]

He died at his home in Auburn, Maine of an illness.[5] A large collection of his manuscripts are archived at the Library of Congress.[6]

  1. ^ "OCLC Authority File". Retrieved 6 December 2010.
  2. ^ Howard, John Tasker (1946). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years Of It (3rd ed.). New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. p. 364.
  3. ^ a b Granville L. Howe & William Smythe Babcock Mathews (1837–1912), A Hundred Years of Music in America, 1st publishing by G. L. Howe, Chicago (1889); 2nd publishing Theodore Presser (1900)
  4. ^ Boston University; Maxwell, W. J. (1918). General alumni catalogue of Boston University, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [Boston, Mass.
  5. ^ Presser, Theodore, ed. (June 1888). "A. D. Turner". The Etude. Vol. VI. p. 90. Retrieved December 11, 2023.
  6. ^ Hill, Richard S. (1953). "Music". Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions. 11 (1): 15–26. ISSN 0090-0095.