Alfred Dudley Turner

Alfred Dudley Turner (24 August 1854 – 7 May 1888) was an American educator and composer.

He was born in St. Albans, Maine. After displaying unusual musical ability, as a child he went to Boston to study piano at the New England Conservatory, where his teachers included J. C. D. Parker and Madeline Schiller.

Turner was an 1876 graduate of Boston University College of Music. He became an instructor at the New England Conservatory. Among his students were Charles Dennée and Frank Addison Porter. A large collection of his manuscripts are archived at the Library of Congress.

Selected works Turner produced 36 numbered compositions, mostly of piano and chamber music. Among them are:

A Romance Berceuse 6 Concert Etudes (Octave Valse Brillante, Expansion, Humoresque, "If I Were a Bird" à la Henselt, Maestoso, Wild Rider) Valse Souvenir Piano Quintet 15 Melodious Studies for Piano, Op. 30 Christmas Suite for piano, Op. 33 Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 34

He also wrote the piano technique book A complete set of scales for the Piano-Forte (including double thirds, double sixths, arpeggios in all forms, Octaves, etc., carefully fingered from Dreyschock, Plaidy, and Köhler). It was first published in 1879 by the New England Conservatory, and reprinted nearly 20 years after his death in a 1907 edition.