Composers

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

Voice
Piano
Song
Sacred songs
Religious music
by popularity
I Breathe Thy NameJust for To-DayLast Night, I Heard the NightingaleSongs of the GardenThe ChrysanthemumThe Cry of RachelThe Lamp of LoveTo a Moon-Flower
Wikipedia
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 – 12 September 1938) was an American soprano and composer. She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner. Turner graduated from Burlington High School in Burlington, Iowa, and the Boston College of Music, and then worked as a voice teacher at Wellesley College and performed in churches. In 1881 she married Sumner Salter. She died in Orangeburg, New York. She was one of the founding members of the American Society of Women Composers.
Turner wrote about 130 songs. Selected works include: