Winifred Merrill Warren (July 24, 1898 – March 11, 1990) was an American violinist and music educator, a professor of music at the Indiana University School of Music from 1938 to 1961.
Winifred Merrill Warren | |
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 Winifred Merrill, photographed in 1925 by Arnold Genthe | |
| Born | July 24, 1898 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Died | March 11, 1990 (aged 91) Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Violinist, college professor |
Early life
Winifred Merrill was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of Barzille Winfred Merrill and Mary Ann Neely Merrill.[1] Her father was a violinist, a student of Joseph Joachim and Bernhard Ziehn;[2] he taught music in Iowa and was founder and dean of the music department at Indiana University.[3] She attended the Institute of Musical Art in New York, with further studies in Paris in 1932.[4] Her teachers and mentors included Édouard Dethier, Franz Kneisel, Percy Goetschius, and Nadia Boulanger.[5]
Career
Winifred Merrill gave her first professional recital in 1925, in Iowa.[6] She was a guest soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. She began teaching music at Indiana University in 1927.[7][8] She became an assistant professor in 1938, after her father's retirement from the school.[5] She formed the Indiana University Trio with two of her colleagues, Finnish cellist Lennart von Zweygberg and German pianist Ernest Hoffzimmer.[9][10] She taught two summers in Munich with the Indiana University Summer Music School program.[11] She gave a solo recital at Carnegie Hall in 1944.[12] "Miss Merrill is obviously a musician who knows what she wants to do, and her intent and accomplishment were closely allied," reported one reviewer in 1950.[13]
She wrote The Arthur Stories (1987), a book of stories about her husband.[14]
Personal life
Winifred Merrill married Arthur Warren in 1961, the year she retired from Indiana University.[15] She died in 1990, aged 91 years, in Illinois. She left her violin to the Indiana University Foundation, for the use of violin students there.[16]
