Ethel Glenn Hier was an American

United States

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 composer, teacher and pianist of Scottish

Scotland

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 ancestry.

Life

Ethel Glenn Hier was born in Madisonville

Madisonville

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, a neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio

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. She studied at Ohio Wesleyan University

Ohio Wesleyan University

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 and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, where she graduated in piano in 1908. She continued her education in 1911 with composition classes, and in 1917 entered the Institute of Musical Art (later Juilliard).

After completing her studies, Hier worked as a composer and became a teacher of piano and composition in Cincinnati and then New York

New York

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. She died in Winter Park

Winter Park

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, Florida

Florida

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Works

Selected works include:

• Carolina suite for orchestra
• Dreamin' town (Text: Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• The bird in the rain (Text: Elinor Wylie)
• The Hour and the Return, song cycle (Text: Sara Teasdale)
• Down in the Glen
• If You Must Go, Go Quickly