Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter
Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter 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.Works
Turner wrote about thirty songs. Selected works include:
- The Cry of Rachel
- Song of April
- A Der Schmetterling
- Love's Epitome
- Foreign Lands
- Life
- The High Song
- Wandrers Nachtlied
