Regina Cohn Watson (April 23, 1845 – July 31, 1913) was a composer, pianist, and teacher[1] who was born in Germany. Her family later moved to America, first to Detroit, then to Chicago, where Regina lived for the rest of her life. In 1873, she married Lewis H. Watson, a Civil War veteran who had fought with an infantry unit from Maine.[2]
Regina Watson studied music with Franz Liszt and Karl Tausig in Europe, and with Bernhard Ziehn,[3] probably in Chicago. After she moved to America, she gave lecture recitals on topics such as medieval French music,[4] Italian music, and folk songs.[5] She performed as a piano soloist in recitals and with orchestras.[6] She belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)[7] and helped found the Musical Art Society of Chicago.[8]
Watson is best remembered today as a piano teacher.[9] Her students included Teresa Carreno,[10] Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge,[11] Phyllis Fergus Hoyt,[12] Peter Lutkin, Veronica Murphy,[13] and Theodora Sturkow-Ryder.[14]
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge organized an effort in 1916 to build[15] and name a studio at the MacDowell Colony in Watson's memory.[16] Composer Amy Beach used the Regina Watson Studio during her residency at the Colony.[17] It was renovated in 1993 and became the MacDowell Colony's first barrier-free studio that was accessible to everyone.[18]
Watson's music was published by the Clayton F. Summy Company.[19] Her compositions include:
^Stern, Susan, 1953– (1978). Women composers : a handbook. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-1138-3. OCLC 3844725.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^Watson, Regina (30 October 2020). "ancestry.com". Retrieved 30 October 2020.
^O'Brien, Howard Vincent (1912). The Trimmed Lamp: A Periodical of Life and Art. H.V. O'Brien.
^The Musician. Hatch Music Company. 1897.
^The Étude and Musical World. T. Presser. 1896.
^Association, Music Teachers National (1921). Papers and Proceedings of the Music Teachers' National Association. The Association.
^McNamara, Daniel Ignatius (1948). The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors and Publishers. T. Y. Crowell Company.
^Watson, Regina (2 August 1913). "Inter Ocean Newspaper". Chicago Illinois. Retrieved 29 October 2020.
^Block, Adrienne Fried (2000). Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867–1944. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513784-2.
^Kijas, Anna (September 2019). "The Life of Teresa Carreno (1853-1917), A Venezuelan Prodigy and Acclaimed Artist". Music Library Association Notes Philadelphia. 76 (1).
^Coolidge, Elizabeth Sprague. "Chamber Music: The Life and Legacy of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge/The Making of a Patron". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-10-31.
^The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time. J. T. White. 1970.
^The Musical Monitor. Mrs. David Allen Campbell, Publisher. 1918.
^The Musical Blue Book of America, ...: Recording in Concise Form the Activities of Leading Musicians and Those Actively and Prominently Identified with Music in Its Various Departments ... Musical Blue Book Corporation. 1922.
^Harback, Barbara; Touliatos-Miles, Diane (2020-06-01). Women in the Arts: Eccentric Essays in Music, Visual Arts and Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-5392-7.
^Mansfield, Howard (2006). Where the Mountain Stands Alone: Stories of Place in the Monadnock Region. University Press of New England. ISBN 978-1-58465-556-5.
^Jenkins, Walter S., 1909-1990. (1994). The remarkable Mrs. Beach, American composer : a biographical account based on her diaries, letters, newspaper clippings, and personal reminiscences. Baron, John H. Warren, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press. ISBN 0-89990-069-0. OCLC 30594003.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
Regina Cohn Watson (April 23, 1845 – July 31, 1913) was a composer, pianist, and teacher who was born in Germany. Her family later moved to America, first...
dealer in Chicago. She was musically talented and studied piano with ReginaWatson, as well as composition with other teachers. She married the physician...
addition to his piano lessons, and even taking on one of Liszt's pupils, ReginaWatson, as his own. At the age of 16 he met Richard Wagner, of whom he became...
Mabel Madison Watson (1872–1952) ReginaWatson (1845–1913) Ruth Watson Henderson (born 1932) Carol Ann Weaver (born 1948) Mary Watson Weaver (1903–1990)...
Eleanor Everest Freer, Glenn Dillard Gunn, Julius Gold, Grace Chadbourne, ReginaWatson, and Otto Wolf. See: List of music students by teacher: T to Z#Bernhard...
Kirk Preston Watson (born March 18, 1958) is an American attorney and politician who has served as the 59th mayor of Austin, Texas, since 2023, previously...
formal music training, studying organ with Clarence Eddy, piano with ReginaWatson, and theory with Frederick Grant Gleason. At age twenty-one, he became...
is the Tobagonian politician and Progressive Democratic Patriots leader Watson Duke. "'Black Panther' star Winston Duke acquires Rwandan nationality"....
live in the province's largest city, Saskatoon, or the provincial capital, Regina. Other notable cities include Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, Yorkton, Swift Current...
Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee GBM GBS JP (Chinese: 葉劉淑儀; née Lau; born 24 August 1950) is a politician in Hong Kong. She is currently the Convenor of the Executive...
Hans-Gerhardt and Regina had a daughter, Joan Fischer. The reemergence of antisemitism under Stalin prompted Regina to go with Joan to Paris, where Regina became...
Regina Romero (born 1974) is an American politician serving as the 42nd Mayor of Tucson, Arizona since 2019. In addition to being the Mayor of Tucson,...
Phormia regina, the black blow fly, belongs to the blow fly family Calliphoridae and was first described by Johann Wilhelm Meigen. The black blow fly's...
"Statistics, Regina SK". The Weather Network. Archived from the original on January 5, 2009. Retrieved January 18, 2010. "Regina International Airport"...
performance hall located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The hall was named for Francis Nicholson Darke, the former mayor of Regina. Designed by architect...
Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Magician's Elephant, the Mercy Watson series, and Flora & Ulysses. Her books have sold around 37 million copies...