Harriet Ware (composer)

Harriet Ware (August 26, 1877 – February 9, 1962) was an American composer, pianist, and music educator. Early life Harriet Ware was born in Waupun, Wisconsin, the daughter of Silas Edward Ware and Emily Sperry Ware. She showed musical promise from an early age, and graduated from Pillsbury Conservatory of Music in 1895, with further studies in Paris and Berlin. Career Harriet Ware composed songs, choral works, piano pieces, and at least one opera, Undine. Her “Hindu Slumber Song” (1909) and Call of Râdha (1909) were settings of poems by Sarojini Naidu. She also wrote settings of poems by Thomas Moore, Edwin Markham, Cale Young Rice, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Richard Lovelace, Bayard Taylor, Joyce Kilmer, and Marie Van Vorst. She also wrote musical plays, The Morning Glory and The Varying Shore, both with Zoë Akins. Her “Women’s Triumphal March” was the official song of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1929, and her setting of Daniel A. Poling’s poem “The Rose is Red” was the song of the American Mothers Association. Harriet Ware’s works were especially popular in programs of American song, or in programs focused on women composers. Harriet Ware saw the importance of wo