Satella Waterstone

Satella Sharps Waterstone (February 1875 – June 15, 1938) nicknamed "Miss Birda",^[1] was an American author, composer, and teacher.^[2]

Biography

Waterstone was born in Greenwood Lake, Orange, New York to Edward T. Waterstone and Satella Sharps Waterstone,^[3] who died giving birth to her daughter. Waterstone's grandfather, Christian Sharps, was a well-known gunsmith who invented the sharps rifle,^[4] a 50-caliber gun used in the western United States to hunt buffalo.

Waterstone was educated by private tutors before studying at Columbia University and in Jena, Germany. After traveling throughout Europe, she returned home and began teaching at Spinning Private School in South Orange, New Jersey. In 1916, Waterstone and Emma Hedden opened the Hedden-Waterstone Private School for Boys and Girls, for kindergarten through third grade students.^[5]

She wrote articles about early music education, training rhythm bands, and kindersymhonies or toy symphonies.^[6] Waterstone's works were published by Derrydale Press, G. Schirmer Inc., and P.F. Volland Company.

Selected publications

• A Collection of Verse (privately published by Waterstone's friend Grace Parker after Waterstone's death in 1938)
• Chapel Island (New York): A History
• Short Stories of Musical Melodies^[7] (illustrated by Katherine Sturgia)^[8]
• Some Songs to Play, Some Songs to Sing (with Florence Turner-Maley)^[9][10]

References

1. David, Elizabeth Harbison (1940). I Played Their Accompaniments. D. Appleton-Century Company, incorporated. ISBN 9781404794986.
2. Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
3. Waterstone, Satella (5 November 2020). "ancestry.com". Retrieved 5 November 2020.
4. "User-submitted name Satella - Behind the Name". www.behindthename.com. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
5. Cudney, Olga & Edward (24 July 1974). "The Story of Greenwood Lake" (PDF). Greenwood Lake News. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
6. Wier, Albert Ernest (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan.
7. www.bibliopolis.com. "Aleph-Bet Books Rare & Collectible Children's & Illustrated Books". Aleph-Bet Books. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
8. Vanity Fair. University Microfilms. July 1915.
9. Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1930). Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1930 Musical Compositions For the Year 1930 New Series Vol 25 Part 3. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
10. The United States Catalog: Books in Print January 1, 1928. Wilson. 1928.