About Alicia Van Buren
Lived 1860 – 1922 (aged 61–62). Alicia Van Buren was a composer, poet and classical composer.
Alicia Keisker Van Buren (5 March 1860 – 11 April 1922) was an American composer, singer, painter,
Van Buren was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended public and unspecified private schools. She married Albert Van Buren and they lived in Louisville and Brookline, Massachusetts, spending the winters at their home in Florida.
Albert Van Buren was a serious amateur painter who studied with marine artist Charles H. Woodbury.
Van Buren's papers and correspondence are archived at Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. Her books of poetry were published by Richard G. Badger's Gorham Press. Her publications included:
Books
As Thought is Led: Lyrics and Sonnets (1904)
Orchestra
Daffodils: A Tone Poem
Vocal
"Afar" Book of Songs "Constancy" Five Songs "In Early Spring" (text by William Wordsworth) "June Song" "November" (text by John Townsend Trowbridge) Six Songs
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American composer
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Alicia Van Buren was born in 1860.
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Alicia Van Buren died in 1922.
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Alicia Van Buren was a composer, poet and classical composer.
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APA: Biography.guide. (2026). Alicia Van Buren. https://biography.guide/alicia-van-buren/
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