May Louise Cooper Spindle (January 1, 1885 – October 1968)[1] was an American composer[2] and teacher[3] who wrote many pedagogical pieces for piano.
[4] Spindle was born in Muskegon, Michigan,[5] to Rosina H. Winters and Charles Bicknell Cooper.
Her teachers included Felix Borowski, Glen Dillard, Laurence Powell, Hans von Schiller, Charles Vogan, and Max Wald.
[7] Spindle belonged to the American Society of Composers, Author, and Publishers (ASCAP), the Michigan Composers Club,[8] and the Music Teachers National Association.
[9] In 1937, she was the Grand Rapids winner of the Michigan State Composers Contest.