Alfred Dudley Turner (24 August 1854 – 7 May 1888)[1] was an American educator and composer.

[2] After displaying unusual musical ability, as a child he went to Boston to study piano at the New England Conservatory, where his teachers included J. C. D. Parker and Madeline Schiller.

[6] Turner produced 36 numbered compositions, mostly of piano and chamber music.

Among them are: He also wrote the piano technique book A complete set of scales for the Piano-Forte (including double thirds, double sixths, arpeggios in all forms, Octaves, etc., carefully fingered from Dreyschock, Plaidy, and Köhler).

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