Estelle Ricketts

Estelle Ricketts, born 1871, was an American composer.

Personal life

Ricketts lived in Darby, Pennsylvania, which is now a suburb of Philadelphia.[1] She lived with her mother, her younger brother, and her father, who operated a boarding stable.[2] She was the only one in her family who could read and write.[3]

Career

Estelle Ricketts' 1893 parlor piano piece, “Rippling Spring Waltz,” is the earliest known piano solo written by a black woman.[4] Estelle Rickets is mentioned in a book entitled "The Work of the Afro-American Woman," written by Mrs. Gertrude Bustill Mossell. This book highlights the achievements of African American women in all different disciplines, and was published in 1908.[5]

The frontispiece to Ricketts' "Rippling Spring Waltz"

Notes

  1. Walker-Hill 1992
  2. Walker-Hill 1992
  3. Walker-Hill 1992
  4. Walker-Hill 1992
  5. Mossell 1908

References

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