Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter
# Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter (15 March 1856 – 12 September 1938) 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 130 songs. Selected works include:

* The Cry of Rachel
* Song of April
* A Der Schmetterling (from Three German Songs) (Text: Heinrich Heine)
* Love's Epitome (a cycle of five songs)
* Foreign Lands (text: Robert Louis Stevenson)
* Life (from Five Songs) (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
* The High Song (text: Humbert Wolfe)
* Wandrers Nachtlied (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
