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Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie was an American composer, author and pianist.
Background
Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the daughter of Robert Henry Faunt Le Roy, a Virginian in the service of the United States Coast Survey as astronomer, and Jane Dale (Owen) Faunt Le Roy, daughter of Robert Owen and sister of David and Robert Dale Owen. Constance seems to have inherited musical gifts from both her parents; her father was an amateur composer and her mother, from whom she received her first music lessons, a finished performer on the piano and the harp. She spent her childhood in New Harmony, Ind. , a village purchased from the Rappists by her grandfather.
Education
In 1852 she was taken to Stuttgart, Germany, for five years' training in piano and composition.
Career
After her marriage Runcie went with her husband to his rectorship in Madison, Ind. , and in 1871 to St. Joseph, Mo. , where she lived until her death. In 1897 an accident deprived her of her hearing. She died in Winnetka, Ill.
Her music is seldom heard today; but she was well known in her time, and her life and her music were characteristic of the period and environment in which she lived. According to tradition, no musical composition that she submitted to a publisher was rejected. Among her songs the most widely used were "I've Wandered Far Away, " "Invocation to Love, " "Das V"glein Singt, " and "Take My Soul, O Lord. " Besides much published music, she left the manuscript of a romantic opera, The Prince of Asturia.
She also tried her skill as a writer, published Poems, Dramatic and Lyric (1888), and completed two unpublished novels. In addition to her musical activities, she is credited with being the founder of one of the first regularly organized women's clubs in the United States, the Minerva Society, formed in New Harmony, September 13, 1859. The quaint Rappite house in which the club was first organized later became the property of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs. In St. Joseph she founded a literary and musical club that still continues and bears her name, the Runcie Club.
Achievements
Constance Runcie was known as the author of short stories, plays and music compositions. Her best works included: "The Burning Question", non-fiction; "Woman", an essay; "The Bab", a novel; "I've Wandered Far Away", a song; "Invocation to Love", a song.
Runcie was the founder of the women's club, the "Minerva Society" and literary and musical club, the "Runcie Club".
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Personality
Quotes from others about the person
It is said (Musical America, post) that William Mason, the pianist, once remarked to the composer, "I thought when hearing your music it was that of a man. It is both virile and dramatic. "
Connections
On April 9, 1861, Constance married the Rev. James Runcie, an Episcopal clergyman who had officiated at intervals in the little church in New Harmony. Her husband died in 1889. They had two sons and two daughters.
