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Marion Osgood

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bore her name. This company was established by her in 1884, was composed wholly of women artists, numbered 30 pieces, and was thoroughly organized with brass and wood winds, strings, and tympana. This company was the first ladies' orchestra for professional work in the US; it existed for about ten years. Among her many published works are a "Fantaisie Caprice", an album of descriptive pieces for violin and piano, and the song "Loving and Loved".
125: 260: 239: 116:(January 4, 1859 – 1948) was an American violinist, composer, and orchestra conductor. She established her own company, the Marion Osgood's Ladies Orchestra, which was the first women's orchestra organized for professional work in the United States. She was one of the leading solo violinists in the country. 151:
and was one of the leading solo violinists in the US. She composed and published a number of vocal and instrumental pieces, was a scholarly writer regarding art, and met with local success as a writer of short stories in romantic fiction. Osgood organized and conducted the ladies' orchestra which
33: 140:, and her mother, Mary A. Osgood, was an author and music composer. George L. Osgood, a Boston musician, was her cousin, and her brother was Professor Fletcher Osgood, 361: 346: 351: 336: 391: 376: 356: 371: 272:
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Chelsea, Massachusetts
Classical
Violin

Chelsea, Massachusetts
Lowell Mason
elocutionist
Boston
"Miss Marion G. Osgood."


Willard 1893


Illustrated American Publishing Company 1890
Handy 1998
public domain
The Illustrated American
public domain
A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life
550
Black Women in American Bands and Orchestras
ISBN
978-0-8108-3419-4
Categories
1860s births
American violinists
American classical composers
American women classical composers

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