Maude Valérie White's lyrics & chords

Maude Valérie White (1855 – 1937) was a French-born English composer who became one of the most successful songwriters (in the English serious genre) of the Victorian period. Although born near Dieppe in Normandy to upper middle class parents, White and her family moved to England when she was only one year old. She spent her childhood in Heidelberg, Paris, and England, and played the piano from an early age. At seventeen she had already composed her first song. She studied Composition with Oliver May while in London, and Counterpoint and H...read more