Mary Wurm, Romance

Mary J. A. Wurm (her surname was originally Würm) (18 May 1860 in Southampton 21 January 1938 in Munich) was an English pianist and composer. She was born as Mary Josephine Agnes Würm in England, the sister of Alice VerneBredt, Mathilde Verne, and Adela Verne. She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied piano with Clara Schumann and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women s orchestra in Berlin. In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover.