Marthe Servine

Marthe Servine (1862 in Paris – 1960 ) was a French-American composer and pianist, primarily known for her works for solo piano, and songs. Biography Marthe Servine was born in Paris to French parents. She was brought to the U.S. at the age of 10 and became an American citizen. and made her debut at the age of 12. At her debut she played the Mendelssohn G Minor Concerto, under Xaver Scharwenka. At this concert, she performed exclusively her compositions, After 1919, but before 1924, Servine moved back to Europe, where the captions on her manuscripts show that she spent some time in France and some in Britain. The performers included the Roth Quartet and herself at the piano. The concert was well received, garnering several positive reviews from major New York newspapers. In the New York Sun review, she was described as a “vigorous person of middle years”. F. D. Perkins, writing in the New-York Tribune shortly after the concert, described her music as showing “solid and well-schooled musicianship and knowledge of form and generosity regarding melody”. Her style was “pervaded by the atmosphere of late nineteenth-century romanticism… it occasionally called to mind Brahms and Cesar Fra