“Composer of Undine

This beautiful lyric tone poem is the result of the united work of the beloved poet of America, Edwin Markham, and Harriet Ware, one of the best of our American song-writers.  Miss Ware, inspired by the genius of Mr. Markham, has produced a work that presents a spiritual truth with dramatic force and the delicate grace which characterizes her technique. ‘Undine’ may be used either as a sextet, a choral work or as a one-act opera.

Miss Ware is a native of Wisconsin, although the years of her early youth passed in Minnesota.  She began her musical education at Pilsbury Academy, from which she was graduated.  She studied later with Dr. William Mason, and then went to Paris for further work in piano, voice, harmony and counterpoint.  Returning to America, she settled in New York for two years, after which she went to Berlin where she studied with Madame Grunewald.  A third period of study was taken, also in Berlin, under Hugo Kaun.  Since her return to New York Miss Ware has given herself up to teaching, composing and enjoying the success which inevitably attends the genius that knows how to work.

Most of her compositions have been in the song form.  Her choral works, however, have had an equal success, and the first one, the cantata of ‘Sir Olaf.’ on the text of Cecil Panning, has been widely used by women’s choruses in all parts of the country.  The ‘Undine’ is considered by the composer herself as by far the best work she has done.

Miss Ware was married in 1913 to Mr. Hugh M. Krumbhade.  During the greater part of the year the composer and her husband make their home at their country residence at Garden City, Lon Island.”

Reference Data:

The Musical Monitor, Vol. 4, by the National Federdation of Music Clubs, 1914, page 410