Lizette Emma Orth
American
Female
Born 1858, Died 1913
Lizette Emma Blood was born on July 6, 1858 in Milford, New Hampshire. She was the daughter of James Blood and Emeline Wheeler Blood and began studying piano at age ten. In 1877, she began studying under pianist John Orth in Boston and they married in 1883.
Orth focused much of her writing on pedagogical works. In all, she wrote over 150 piano pieces for children and two children's operas, Mother Goose's Jubilee and The Song of the Sea-shell . Sketches of Representative Women in New England described Orth’s compositional output as such:
“To the writing of music for children, many seem to think themselves ‘called’, but indeed few are by nature chosen. Such music must be naively simple, well defined in rhythm, and as spontaneous as a child itself. The write music of this type without triteness requires nothing less than a rare sort of genius …”
Orth focused much of her writing on pedagogical works. In all, she wrote over 150 piano pieces for children and two children's operas, Mother Goose's Jubilee and The Song of the Sea-shell . Sketches of Representative Women in New England described Orth’s compositional output as such:
“To the writing of music for children, many seem to think themselves ‘called’, but indeed few are by nature chosen. Such music must be naively simple, well defined in rhythm, and as spontaneous as a child itself. The write music of this type without triteness requires nothing less than a rare sort of genius …”