Clara Anna Korn nee Gerlach. Born Berlin 30.6.1866 - Died New York 14.7.1940
At the age of three, she was taken to the USA and grew up in New Jersey. She studied music in New York at The National Conservatory, initially under Horatio Parker and Bruno Klein and later under Anton Dvorak. It is said that Tchaikovsky having seen some of her compositions wrote and urged her to persue a career as a composer. For a period she was head of the music department at the De Bauer School of Music, New York. Later in life she settled in Brooklyn as a music teacher. (She also seems to have been known as Clara Korer)
Orchestral
Symphony in C minor '
Symphonic poem, 'Morpheus'
Suite for orchestra, 'Ancient Dances'
Suite for orchestra, 'Rural Snapshots'
Piano Concerto
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Violin Concerto
Chamber
Violin suite Op.10
There are other pieces for violin and piano
Piano
Piano Sonata 'The Nautical' Op.14 1911
'Gymnasium' march pub. by Presser
'Swinging' pub. by Presser
Song
Album of nine songs: Little Fellow, The Miller's Daughter, Farewell, Legend, A Recollection, The Brook, Cease, Love Story, My Fair One. pub. by Breitkopf & Hartel
Opera
'Our Last War' or 'Their Last War' ?
She also wrote some songs with orchestral accompaniment
Clara married Herman Ernst Korn 28.9.1884 and they had one daughter Mathilde Elise Korn 1886-1931
If this is Clara A. Korn, the Library of Congress catalog has her Nautical piano sonata Op.14, published in 1911 by Essex (Permalink (http://lccn.loc.gov/unk84125572)), and some other works.
... could have sworn that wasn't there when I was typing that :) Ah yes. The other entry in their catalog seems to confirm this-
Clara Anna (Gerlach) Korn, 1866-. BTW, they list the play as "Their last war", not "Our". (Reference. (http://lccn.loc.gov/ca32000904) :) It might be a second or related work rather than the same one, though! )
Thank you for the info. The opera is sometimes listed as 'Their' and sometimes 'Our' I suppose unless one looks at the the MS we wont know. I have a feeling it might have been changed for 'political' reasons.