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Identifier/Call Number
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MS 84
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Description
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Piano music (single sheets and bound in books) owned by Marie Rose (Emond) Fournier, longtime Biddeford piano teacher, and her family. Materials in English and in French, from her days at conservatory and later as a teacher. Stamps from music shops that were located in Biddeford, Portland, Philadelphia and Canada.
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Copyright Statement and Conditions governing use
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Reproductions are provided for educational, scholarly, and informational purposes only. Any copyright questions should be directed to the library’s Director.
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Biography, Administrative History and Provenance
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Marie Rose (Emond) Fournier (1901-1978) was born in Biddeford. She attended the Presentation of Mary Convent school in Coaticook, Quebec, and was a 1922 graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, after which time she taught piano from her home on Pool Street. She married Wilfrid Fournier of Biddeford on June 1, 1925 at St. Andre's Church, and had two children.
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Extent
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1 box (1.5 linear feet)
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Collection Inventory
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2022.13.1 Solicitation letter from Societe de L’Ange-Gardien
2022.13.2 Chants Populaires des Franco-Americains. Publies sous la direction du Professeur Eusebe Viau par L’Union St.-Jean-Baptiste D’Amerique.
2022.13.3 In an eighteenth century drawing room. Piano solo, a group of variations on a theme song by Mozart by Raymond Scott [STAMPED: Proulx’s Music Shop – 41 Bacon St – Biddeford Maine]
2022.13.4 Brisk winds chromatic waltz. Piano solo, a John W. Schaum arrangement.
2022.13.5 *Offensive depiction of Black people warning* Golliwog parade. Piano solo by Eula A. Lindfors [STAMPED: Cressey & Allen – 517 Congress Street – Portland 3, Maine]
1951
2022.13.6 Fritz Spindler publications for the piano. Piano solo; piano, four-hands.
2022.13.7 Standard works. Recreations for the Pianoforte. Series III.
2022.13.8 Schirmer’s Library. Vol 749 Czerny Op. 453 One hundred and ten easy and progressive exercises for pianoforte. [STAMPED: Hatch Music Co. Phildelphia.]
2022.13.9 Schirmer’s Library. Vol. 19 Bach French suites
2022.13.10 Schirmer’s Library. Vol. 178 Heller Twenty-five studies Op.47 [STAMPED: Prof. Jos. A. Comtois; Teacher of Piano, Violin, Etc., Studio, 159 Main Street, Biddeford, Me.]
2022.13.11 The new kaleidoscope. Changing moods and scenes for the advancing pianist. Compiled and annotated by Adelaide Trowbridge Perry.
2022.13.12 Ditson Edition. No. 240 Heller, the art of phrasing, Op. 16, Book I (Benker)
2022.13.13 Schirmer’s Library. Vol. 97 Schumann. Forest-scenes Op. 82, Romances Op.28 (Vogrich)
2022.13.14 Charles Huerter in Springtime. [STAMPED: Kemball Music Company at Steinerts, 517 Congress St., Portland, Maine]
2022.13.15 Marionettes for pianoforte by G.A. Grant-Schaefer
2022.13.16 O Sole Mio, Di Capua, No. 3701
2022.13.17 No. 852. Edition Wood. The B.F. Wood Music Co.’s Progressive Studies for Pianoforte. Book II Elementary.
2022.13.18 Schirmer’s Scholastic Series. Volume 19 Pianoforte pedal studies by Arthur Whiting, Part I
2022.13.19 John Thompson’s modern course for the piano. The fifth grade book.
2022.13.20 Music lovers edition. Intermezzo from the Opera “Cavalleria Rusticana” for piano by Pietro Mascagani
2022.13.21 Music lovers edition. William Tell fantasie for piano by E. Dorn
2022.13.22 Franz Liszt transcriptions of songs and arrangements for the piano
2022.13.23 Music lovers edition. Prelude for piano by Sergei Rachmaninoff
2022.13.24 Music lovers edtion. Fifth nocturne for piano by J. Leybach
2022.13.25 Music lovers edtion. Barcarolle (Wondrous Night of Love) from the Opera “The Tales of Hoffmann” song, English words by Al. Dubin, Music by Jacques Offenbach
2022.13.26 The Champagne Waltz. Lyrics and music by Con Conrad, Ben Oakland, Milton Drake. Introduced by Jack Denny and his orchestra.
2022.13.27 Music lovers edition. Serenade (Standchen) song, words by Ludwig Rellstab, music by Franz Schubert
2022.13.28 W.A. Mozart sonatas for the pianoforte, edited and revised by Richard Epstein
2022.13.29 Wedding Bouquet, 17 celebrated wedding songs, collected and edited by Bernard Taylor
2022.13.30 Victor Staub, Oeuvres pour le piano. A deux mains; a quatre mains; a deux pianos quatre mains.
2022.13.31 Arabesques, characteristic tone pictures of moderate difficulty from the works of Eminent Masters carefully revised and fingered. [STAMPED: Mlle. M. A. LaPierre, Marchande de Musique en feuilles, 12 rue Rosalie, St-Hyacinthe, P.Q.]
2022.13.32 Variations Brillantes sur Vive la Canadienne (Melodie Nationale Canadienne) pour piano par Charles Grobe. Op. 113. [STAMPED: Achete chez A.J. Boucher. No. 28 Est, rue Notre-Dame, Montreal.]
2022.13.33 The Etude Music Magazine, July 1945. [Mailing label attached: Mrs. Wilfrid Fournier, 21 Pool St., Biddeford Maine]
1945
2022.13.34 – 2022.13.46. Individual muscial pieces cut from issues of The Etude (magazine)
1919-1932
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Notes
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https://mcarthur.pastperfectonline.com/archive/26B9BDD8-FB07-4E10-B17C-770875798670
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Recommended Citation
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From MS 84, Emond-Fournier Piano Music, McArthur Public Library, Biddeford, Maine.
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