Lizette Emma Orth ( – ) was an American pianist and composer.
She was born Lizette Emma Blood on in Milford, New Hampshire, the daughter of James Blood and Emeline Wheeler Blood, an accomplished amateur musician. She began studying piano at age ten. In 1877, she began studying under pianist John Orth in Boston and they married in 1883.
Orth composed numerous piano pieces for children and two children's operas, Mother Goose's Jubilee (1901) and The Song of the Sea-shell (1903).
Works
Op. 1, Four Character Sketches in F, for piano Op. 2, Six Recreation Pieces, for piano Op. 5, "Mother Goose Songs without Words", seventy piano pieces Op. 6, "The Merry-go-round," eighteen piano pieces Op. 7, "Daffodils," three piano duets Op. 8, 3 Little Piano Pieces Op. 10, Ten Tone Pictures for the Piano Op. 11, Twelve Miniatures for the Piano Op. 12, Mother Goose's Jubilee, sixty songs Op. 15, "On the White Keys," an introduction to the piano Op. 19, Festival Minuet Op. 21, "Ten Little Fingers," ten piano pieces Op. 23, "What Little Hands can do," ten piano pieces Op. 28, Songs for Sleepy-time, twenty-four children's songs.
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