About Anna Ware Poole
Lived 1838 – 1929 (aged 90–91). Anna Ware Poole was a pianist, composer and singer.
Anna Ware Poole (18 Dec. 1838 - 19 Jan. 1929) was an American composer, pianist, teacher, and vocalist. She composed songs and piano works.
Poole was born in Buffalo, New York, to Martha Fitch and Rushmore Poole. She attended the Misses Hill’s School in Buffalo. Poole studied piano with J. R. Blodgett and Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and voice with Carlotta Patti. After Hoxsie’s death, she married Dr. Joseph Tottenham Cook. She published under the name Anna Ware Poole. Denton Cottier and Daniels, and Oliver Ditson Company, and included:
Piano
Cherub’s Waltz
Sunlight and Shadow
Water Wheel
“Salvation Mary” (text by Minna Irving)
“What Does Little Birdie Say” (text by Alfred Tennyson)
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American composer and musician (1838–1929)
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Anna Ware Poole was born in 1838.
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Anna Ware Poole died in 1929.
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Anna Ware Poole was a pianist, composer and singer.
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