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Ann Ronell
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Oh! Susanna, a Comedy With Music in Two Acts
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1906
- Active to
- 1993
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- 752
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Ann Ronell (December 28, 1906 or 1908, – December 25, 1993) was an American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard "Willow Weep for Me" (1932). Ronell was born in Omaha, Nebraska, studied music with Walter Piston, and was married to producer Lester Cowan. The couple had no children. Ronell was, along with Dorothy Fields, Dana Suesse, and Kay Swift, one of the first successful Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley female composers or librettists. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Ann+Ron
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Part of
- Tin Pan Alley
- Given name
- Ann
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Omaha
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- Wheaton College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Walter Piston
- Field of work
- film score
- Genre
- musical
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Ann Ronell NYWTS edit.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1906-12-28
- date of death
- 1993-12-25
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Commons category
- Ann Ronell
- pseudonym
- Ann Ronell
- birth name
- Ann Rosenblatt
- copyright representative
- American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- significant person
- George Gershwin
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