Background
Mary Wurm was born in England, the sister of Adela Verne and Alice Verne-Bredt.
Mary Wurm was born in England, the sister of Adela Verne and Alice Verne-Bredt.
She lived in Stuttgart as a child, but later returned to London. She studied piano with Clara Schumann and composition with Charles Villiers Stanford. Wurm became a noted pianist, and in 1898 founded and conducted a women"s orchestra in Berlin.
In 1914, Verne published a Practical Preschool collection to be used as teaching material at Elisabeth Caland in Hannover.