Thom's Irish Who's Who/Patterson, Dr. Annie W.

PATTERSON, Dr. Annie W., Mus. Doc., B.A. (N.U.I.). Scholar and Organ Gold Medallist, R.I.A.M.; Professor of Music, Journalist, Lecturer, and Composer; b. Lurgan, Co. Armagh. Educ.: Alexandra College; Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. Examiner in Music at Royal University of Ireland, 1892-95; re-elected 1900; Examiner in Music to Irish Intermediate Board of Education, 1900-1901; re-elected 1920; Examiner in Music to Cork Municipal School of Music, 1914-19; to Leinster School of Music, 1919-1922; Conductor Dublin Choral Union; Organist at several Dublin churches 1887-1897; Originator of "Feis Ceoil" (Irish Musical Festival) Movement; Conductor Hampstead Harmonic Society, 1898; Organist St. Anne, Shandon, Cork, since 1909. Pubns.: The Story of Oratorio; Schumann (Master Musician Series); Chats with Music Lovers; Great Minds in Music; How to Listen to an Orchestra; Beautiful Song and the Singer; Native Music in Ireland; Irish Music in the Home, with harmonised folk-song illustrations (serially "Cork Weekly Examiner"); Our National Musical Heritage ("Banba"); Ceol na nGaedheal ("The Gael"); poems, essays, short stories; Six Original Gaelic Songs, Ivernia Series of Irish music arrangements; "Rallying Song of the Gaelic League"; "The Bells of Shandon" (S.A.T.B.); "Erin Og" (for Violin and Piano); "Ireland for Ever" (March-Song, S.A.T.B.); "Once in Olden Time" (Carol); "A Lay of Spring," &c. Unpublished Compositions: an Oratorio, "Meta Tauta" (The Hereafter); Two Irish Operas, "Ardrigh's Daughter" and "Oisin"; a School Cantata in Gaelic, "An Baban"; Irish Cantata, "The Soul of Eire" Irish Tone Poems (orchestral and for piano); Six Preludes and Fugues for Piano (on Irish Folk-Song); Piano Trios (on traditional Irish tunes and original dances); Three "Tradition" Sonatas for Violin and Piano, Viola and Piano, and 'Cello and Piano, &c. Res.: 43 South Mall, Cork.