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Edith Haines Kuester
Edith Haines Kuester, from a 1908 publication
Edith Haines Kuester, from a 1908 publication
Born
Mary Edith Haines

May 8, 1870
Indiana, U.S.
DiedJune 6, 1956
San Diego, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Pianist, composer, songwriter, music educator

Mary Edith Haines Kuester (May 8, 1870 – June 6, 1956) was an American composer, songwriter, pianist, singer, and music educator.

Early life and education

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Haines was born in Indiana[1] and raised in Michigan, Colorado, and California, the daughter of Henry O. Haines and Margaret Leonardson Haines. She showed musical aptitude from an early age,[2] and studied with composer Bruno Huhn and other musicians.[3]

Career

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Kuester was a concert pianist,[4][5] church organist, accompanist,[6] vocal coach, and piano teacher.[3] She also composed music,[7][8] and published a book of music for piano students.[9] She gave a concert with singer Delia Donal Ayer and violinist Estelle Franklin Gray in Santa Fe in 1911,[10] and a recital with her husband and pianist Olga Lieber in 1930, in Montreal.[11]

Kuester assisted the musical director of the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in 1915.[12] In 1920 she was director of the Wednesday Musical Club in Burlingame, California.[13] In 1928 she directed a musicale for the Westmount Women's Club in Montreal.[14] In 1940 she taught classes at the Warren Conservatory of Music in Pennsylvania, where her husband was head of the voice department.[15]

Publications

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  • "When Love is Best" (1911, words by Ada Foster Murray) [16]
  • "Springtime of Love" (1912, sheet music)[17]
  • "Virgilia" (1915, words by Edwin Markham)[18]
  • "One Hour" (words by Edwin Markham)[2]
  • "In Helena's Garden" (song cycle, words by Richard Watson Gilder)[2][19]
  • "The Missive", "The Voice of June", "The Sunset Window", "The Gray Walls of the Garden", "The Sun-Dial" "Three Flowers of the Garden", "Early Autumn", and "Abendgang" (1910s, compositions)[1][2]
  • "Ebb Tide", "To a Yellow Pansy" (1910s, compositions)[8]
  • "The Buttercup", "Gay Daffodil", "Renunciation", "Reverie", "Secrets", "To a Rose" and "To the Crocus" (1910s, sheet music)[20][21][22]
  • "The Jewel Chain" (1928, song cycle)[14]
  • "Following the Piper"/"Sailor Dance"/"Peter's Pumpkin Shell" (1939, sheet music)[23]
  • "Tone miniatures: Twelve short pieces for piano solo" (1943, booklet)[9]

Personal life

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Haines moved to New York City in 1902.[2] She married German-born musician, concert manager, and journalist Eugene V. Kuester in 1908.[1][2] The couple moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1912,[19][24] then to Burlingame, California, in 1917,[12][13] and they were based in Montreal in the 1920s and 1930s.[5][25] By 1940 they lived in Warren, Pennsylvania.[6] She died in 1956, at the age of 86, in San Diego, California.

References

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  1. ^ a b c International Who's who in Music and Musical Gazetteer: A Contemporary Biographical Dictionary and a Record of the World's Musical Activity. Current Literature Publishing Company. 1918. p. 347.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Hines, Dixie; Hanaford, Harry Prescott (1914). Who's who in Music and Drama. H.P. Hanaford. p. 187.
  3. ^ a b "Edith Haines-Kuester, Pianist and Teacher" Musical Courier 57(26)(December 23, 1908): 11.
  4. ^ "Pianist Praises Perfectly Toned Instrument". Albuquerque Journal. 1911-01-29. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ a b "Wednesday's Concert by Singer and Organist". The Montreal Star. 1933-03-25. p. 22. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ a b "Junior Recital at Warren Conservatory is Very Pleasing". Warren Times Mirror. 1941-07-19. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Portland People Active in a Week's Music". The Sunday Oregonian. 1913-05-11. p. 44. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b "Three American Composers on Saturday Club Program". Stockton Evening and Sunday Record. 1920-05-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ a b "Tone miniatures [music] : twelve short pieces for piano solo / by Edith Haines Kuester". - National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  10. ^ "Crowded Theater Greets Concert". Albuquerque Journal. 1911-01-29. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "Giving Joint Concert". The Gazette. 1930-03-15. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ a b "Welcome Additions to Musical Colony". Daily News Leader. November 1, 1917. p. 7 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  13. ^ a b "Music Club Holds Closing Program in Burlingame". Daily News Leader. May 28, 1920. p. 3 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  14. ^ a b "Westmount Women's Club". The Montreal Star. 1928-02-18. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Mrs. Kuester is Announcing Classes". Warren Times Mirror. 1940-09-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ Library of Congress Copyright Office (1911). Catalog of Copyright Entries. p. 246.
  17. ^ "Springtime of love : waltz song". Digital Collections, University of Tennessee. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
  18. ^ Cook, Howard Willard (1918). Our Poets of Today. Moffat, Yard. p. 71.
  19. ^ a b "Music news item". The Sunday Oregonian. 1912-12-15. p. 48. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ San Francisco Free Public Library (1917). Monthly Bulletin. The Library. p. 59.
  21. ^ "Seattle Notes". Music and Musicians. 1 (1): 11. February 1915.
  22. ^ "Mme. Hild's Pupils Will Give Recital". The Post-Intelligencer. 1914-05-28. p. 7. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: Music. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1967.
  24. ^ "The Realm of Music". The Oregon Daily Journal. 1912-04-07. p. 52. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Joint Recital (advertisement)". The Montreal Star. 1930-03-29. p. 10. Retrieved 2025-03-07 – via Newspapers.com.
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