Kathleen Lockhart Manning

Kathleen Lockhart Manning

Kathleen Lockhart Manning (24 October 1890 – 20 March 1951) was an American composer. She was born on a ranch in Hollywood, California, and studied piano and composition in Paris with Moritz Moszkowski, and later with Elizabeth Jordan Eichelberger and de Sales. She sang during the 1911-1912 season with the Hammerstein Opera Company in London and also performed in the United States. After her husband died in 1938, she suffered from mental illness.^[1] She died in Los Angeles.^[2][3]

Works

Lockhart was noted for vocal compositions and wrote her own text. Selected works include:

• Sketches of Paris song cycle
• Sketches of New York, song cycle
• Operetta in Mozartian Style
• For the Soul of Rafael
• Japanese Ghost Songs
• Chinese Impressions
• Two Sketches of Childhood
• The Tale the Garden Told
• Autumn Leaves
• Nostalgia
• The Truant
• Chinois
• Prayer
• Departed^[4]

Her works have been recorded and issued on CD, including:

• To The Mart Of Dreams: Songs By Kathleen Lockhart Manning, Vol. 1

References

1. Kathleen Lockhart Manning, retrieved 1 May 2014
2. Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved 5 January 2011.
3. Howard, John Tasker (1965). Our American music: a comprehensive history from 1620 to the present.
4. "To The Mart Of Dreams". Retrieved 5 January 2011.