Marion Bauer (born 1887 in Walla Walla, Washington) is a composer. She studied piano with her sister Emilie in their hometown, and later with Henry Holden Huss and Eugene Heffley in New York. She studied harmony and analysis with Nadia Boulanger, in exchange for English lessons, and piano with Raoul Pugno , both in Paris. She also studied counterpoint and form with Paul Ertel in Berlin and composition with Walter Henry Rothwell in New York. She studied at the Paris Conservatory with Andre Gedalge (Hisama 2001, p.4-5) Her students include Miriam Gideon.

She wrote the book Twentieth Century Music, published in 1933, as well as articles for The Musical Leader. Her music, unlike her lectures and writings, was traditionally tonal till her studies with Gedalge and transistions to an impressionistic style till the forties when she adopted the twelve-tone technique. (ibid)

She co-founded the American Music Guild and served on the board of the League of American Composers .

Tonal works: Three Impressions (1918) and From the New Hampshire Woods (1922). Serialist works: Patterns (1946) and Moods (1950/4).

Source

• Hisama, Ellie M. (2001). Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052164030X.