Louise Cooper Spindle

May Louise Cooper Spindle (January 1, 1885 – October 1968) was an American composer and teacher who wrote many pedagogical pieces for piano. to Rosina H. Winters and Charles Bicknell Cooper. She married Lee Addison Spindle in 1911. She socialized with composer Eleanor Everest Freer.

Spindle belonged to the American Society of Composers, Author, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Michigan Composers Club, and the Music Teachers National Association. In 1937, she was the Grand Rapids winner of the Michigan State Composers Contest. She taught at Columbia University. In addition to pedagogical pieces for piano, her compositions included:

Chamber

Caprice Espagnole (violin and piano)

Orchestra

Southlands Suite

Organ

Prelude of Spring “Christmas Roundelay” My Dream Ship (arranged for 2, 3, or 4-part chorus) Pickaninny Song (text by Helen Von Kolnitz Hyer; arranged for 2 or 3-part chorus) (E)