Lizette Emma Orth

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 and The Song of the Sea-shell.

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.