Roslyn Brogue was an American pianist, violinist, music educator, classics scholar, poet, author and composer. She was born in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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, and graduated from the University of Chicago

University of Chicago

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 in 1937, from Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College

Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was the coordinate college for Harvard University. It was also one of the Seven Sisters colleges. Radcliffe College conferred joint Harvard-Radcliffe diplomas beginning in 1963 and a formal merger agreement with...

 in 1943 and from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1947 with a Ph.D.

After completing her education, she taught at the Cambridge School

The Cambridge School of Weston

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, Harvard University and Boston University

Boston University

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. She took a position in 1962 teaching at Tufts University

Tufts University

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 Department of Classics, and later taught in the Department of Music. She married composer Ervin Arthur Henning in 1944 in Massachusetts, and the couple divorced about 1969. They were among the first composers to write twelve tone compositions for recorder, Henning in 1951 and Brogue in 1955. Brogue died in Beverly

Beverly

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, and her papers are housed at Tufts University

Tufts University

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. Among her notable students is composer Earle Brown

Earle Brown

Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems...

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Works

Selected works include:

• Adoramus Te (1938) for SATB chorus
• Sonatina (1954) for Flute, B-flat Clarinet, and Harpsichord
• Motet (1938)
• Allegretto (1948)
• Andante and Variations (1954–56)