Marjorie Merryman
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Marjorie Merryman is an American composer who currently chairs the music department at Macalester College, where she also teaches music theory, composition, and orchestration. She previously taught at Boston University. While there, she was commissioned by many professional musical ensembles to write pieces ranging from small chamber works to a full opera.
She has written and published pieces such as "Chinese Moon Poems", a women's choral piece based on Chinese poems about the moon. Merryman categorizes herself with other twentieth-century composers heavily influenced by Johannes Brahms—in particular, serialist composers such as those of the Second Viennese School.
