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Irma Seibert Abbott (born 27 October 1888) was an American composer and harpist who performed and published under the name Irma Seibert.

Seibert was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, to Pauline Scheiffler and Charles Louis Seibert. She attended the Pratt Institute, and also studied music with Gertrude Ina Robinson, Elizabeth Sloman, and Salvatore De Stefano. In 1910, she made her musical debut in New York. She married Wendell Holmes Abbott in 1918 and they had one son, Robert.

Seibert toured throughout the western United States, but played mostly in New York and New Jersey. She accompanied soprano Alice Nielsen and appeared at Carnegie Hall and the Plaza, Ritz, Biltmore and Vanderbilt Hotels. She also worked at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Church of the Good Shepherd in Brooklyn, and at the Montclair Central Presbyterian Church in New Jersey, and accompanied Dr. William C. Carl, conductor Franz Kaltenborn, and Herbert Pankhurst.

Seibert’s music was published by International Music. Her compositions, all for harp, include:

Dance of the Nymphs

Midnight Petrouille

Petite Petrouille

See Also

https://archive.org/details/danceofnymphshar00seib/mode/2up Download Dance of the Nymphs by Irma Seibert

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