Ruth Crawford Seeger

American composer (1901-1953).

Born July 3rd, 1901 in East Liverpool. [ref]

Died November 18th, 1953 at 52 years old in Chevy Chase (cancer). [ref]

Occupations
composer

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde