Ellen Riley Wright

Ellen Riley Wright (24 December 1859 - 3 August 1904) was an English composer of music for popular songs.

Biography

Ellen Riley was born in London, the daughter of American engineer George Riley and married an attorney. She began to compose with no instruction and published her first songs in 1981. Encouraged by her success, she studied harmony with Henry Gadsby and instrumentation with F.W. Davenport and expanded her career as a composer.^[1]

Works

Examples of her compositions include:

"Lovesight" (Text: Dante Gabriel Rossetti)
"Morgens send' ich dir die Veilchen" (Text: Heinrich Heine)
"Violets" (Text: Julian Fane after Heinrich Heine)^[2]
"She Walks in Beauty"
"Queen of My Days"
"Had I but Known"
"Love's Entreaty"
"The Dawn of Life," with orchestral accompaniment^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Brown, James Duff; Stratton, Stephen Samuel (1897) (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). British musical biography: a dictionary of musical artists, authors. p. 459. http://books.google.com/books?id=V_U5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA459&lpg=PA459&dq=Ellen+Riley+Wright+composer&source=bl&ots=xpPgnziD80&sig=2HeZfW26CiVMoDQSG9_pw4vQ5A0&hl=en&ei=8P3CTO_2B8KAlAeOxPEE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=Ellen%20Riley%20Wright%20composer&f=false. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
^ "Ellen Wright, née Riley". http://www.recmusic.org/lieder/w/ewright.html. Retrieved 23 October 2010.

Persondata
Name	Wright, Ellen Riley
Alternative names
Short description	Composer
Date of birth	24 December 1859
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death	3 August 1904
Place of death