Emma Kate Simmons Flint (March 3, 1850 - March 8, 1926)[1] was an American composer[2] and philanthropist who is best known for her piano piece Racquet Galop,[3] which sold over 100,000 copies.
Simmons was born in Troy, New York, to Mary Sophia Gleason and Joseph Ferris Simmons, a banker.
[5] She married the successful businessman Charles Ranlett Flint in 1883[6] and they lived in Manhattan.
She donated the money she made from her musical compositions to charity, endowing a bed at St. Luke’s Hospital with the proceeds from Racquet Galop.
[5] Simmons’ music was published in America and internationally by Augener & Co., Carl Fischer Music, Charles Sheard & Co., Edwin Ashdown Ltd., Hachette & Co., and Oliver Ditson & Co.[7] Racquet Galop was arranged for various instruments by Winslow Lewis Hayden and L. Winner, among others.