{{Short description|American composer and violinist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Edmund Severn | image = Edmund Severn (1862–1942).png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|12|10}} | birth_place = Nottingham, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|1942|5|14|1862|12|10}} | death_place = Melrose, Massachusetts, US | burial_place = | occupation = Composer, violinist | awards = | spouse = Marion Woodsum | children = | education = | signature = | party = }} '''Edmund Severn''' (December 10, 1862 – May 14, 1942) was an English-American composer and violinist.

==Biography== Born in Nottingham, he moved to the United States at four, settling in Hartford, Connecticut and studying violin with his father; he later studied music in Berlin. There he studied the Joachim bowing technique. As a composer, he wrote mainly orchestral music, as well as many pieces for his instrument, including a concerto; he also wrote three string quartets. He died at his home in Melrose, Massachusetts on May 14, 1942.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-edmund-severn-noted-mu/177406671/ |title=Edmund Severn, Noted Musician, Dies in Melrose |newspaper=The Boston Globe |place=Melrose, Massachusetts |page=31 |date=1942-05-14 |publication-date=1942-05-15 |access-date=2025-07-24 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> His most famous work is his "Polish Dance" for violin and piano, composed in 1918.

Edmund Severn's work is often reflective of folk, nationalist and neoclassical genres of music. Severn continued composing into the mid-20th century until he died in 1942.

Severn's pupils included the composer Frances Terry.<ref name="Howard1939">{{cite book|first=John Tasker |last=Howard|author-link=John Tasker Howard|title=Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of it|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w3YLAQAAIAAJ|year=1939|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell Company}}</ref>

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