Elinor Meissner Traeger (July 10, 1906 – December 26, 1983) [1] was an American composer,[2] pianist, and writer.[3]
Traeger was born in Chicago. After studying music with Len Cleary, Edna Hansen, Antoinnette Lauer, and Bess Ressiguie,[4] she married Fred W. Traeger and they had two children, David and Lois.[5]
Traeger composed, reviewed books and music, and taught piano, mostly in Illinois.[6] Her music was published by Pro Art Publications and Willis Music Company,[2] and included the following pieces for piano:
Carousel[7]
Cradle Song[2]
Sleepytime[2]
^Traeger, Elinor Meissner. "ancestry.com". Ancestry.com. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
^ abcdCohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Hixon, Donald L. (1993). Women in music : an encyclopedic biobibliography. Don A. Hennessee (2nd ed.). Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-2769-7. OCLC 28889156.
^International Who's who in Music and Musicians' Directory. Melrose Press. 1977. ISBN 978-0-900332-44-9.
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