Alberta Grace Neiswanger Hall (November 10, 1870 – May 9, 1956), also known as Alberta N. Burton, was an American composer of children's songs and books.Alberta N. Burton WorldCat Identities. Retrieved May 7, 2013 She wrote musical settings for 26 poems in "The Songs of Father Goose" by L. Frank Baum in 1900."The Songs of Father Goose" Open Library. Retrieved May 6, 2013#6 Alberta N. Hall Libraries and Archives of the Autry. Retrieved May 7, 2013
Her other works include musical settings for Lizette Woodworth Reese" and Percy Blackmer, as well as her own original lyrics, and have been called "full of genuine melodic charm and no little skill of harmonic workmanship.
Neiswanger was born in Richmond, Virginia, to Joseph Neiswanger and Marion Louise Paxson. She married George Eckart Hall in 1893 in Chicago.Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Marriages Index, 1871–1920 They later divorced and in 1902 she married Edmund F. Burton,New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1831–1964 a physician who left medicine for the study of Christian Science.Flower, B. O. Christian Science As a Religious Belief and a Therapeutic Agent (1909) pp.78-91, see p. 89f for Aberta N. Burton. Twentieth Century Company, Boston. Retrieved May 6, 2013 She also converted to the religion.
She died in Concord, New Hampshire.New Hampshire, U.S., Death Records, 1650–1969
Selected works The Song of Father Goose (1900) – with L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow The Fruits of the Garden (May 1909) – article in The Christian Science JournalBurton, Alberta N. "The Fruits of the Garden" The Christian Science Journal (May 1909). Retrieved May 7, 2013 The Burro (1916) – arranged by Clarence C. Robinson New stories : (Community life), a second reader (1926) – with Marjorie Hardy and Matilda Breuer Happy days out west for Littlebits (1927) – with Edith Janice Craine and Dorothy Lake Gregory
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Burton, Alberta N. Testimony Christian Science Sentinel Vol. 36, Issue 46. (July 14, 1934). Retrieved May 6, 2013 "Seven Songs from Out-of-Doors", copyright Alberta N. Burton, Dec. 15, 1942 Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3. (1943). Retrieved May 7, 2013