Mary Grant Carmichael was an English

English people

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 composer. She was born in Birkenhead

Birkenhead

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 near Liverpool

Liverpool

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, and may have been of Irish

Irish people

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 parentage. She was educated in France

France

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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 later studied music in Munich

Munich

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. After completing her education, she worked as a pianist and accompanist and died in London

London

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Works

Carmichael was known as a composer of songs and piano pieces. Selected works include:

• Cradle song (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake)
• Infant Joy (Text: William Blake)
• Introduction to the Songs of Innocence (Text: William Blake)
• It is the hour (Text: George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron)
• Merrily flute and loudly (in Three Lyrics (first set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
• My faint spirit, op. 12 (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• So loved and so loving, op. 8 no. 1 (in Three Lyrics (second set) from Heine's Book of Songs) (Text: after Heinrich Heine)
• Sweetheart, sigh no more (Text: Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• The blossom (in Four songs) (Text: William Blake)