Anastasia Delores Rohde Libbey (1 November 1919 – 4 July 1988) was a versatile American composer[1] who studied with Nadia Boulanger and wrote classical music as well as popular hit songs like "Mango".[2][3] She published her music under the name Dee Libbey and the pseudonym Q'Adrianne Rohde.[4][5]
Libbey was born in Deland, Florida, to Anastasia Delores Shumate and Clifford Kahrwald Rohde.[6] She won awards for playing xylophone in high school, then studied music at Stetson University; the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France, and Chicago; and privately with several teachers. She sang tenor in at least one church choir.[7] Her teachers included Nadia Boulanger, Dr. William Duckwitz, the xylophonist John Heney, and Leo Sowerby. She married Edwin B. Libbey and they had one son.[2]
As Q'Adrianne Rohde, Libbey copyrighted a drawing in 1973 called TheUnity Eagle.[9] Her works were recorded by Columbia Records[10] and published by G. Schirmer Inc. and Lawson Gould Music Publishers.[2] Her compositions include:
^Stewart-Green, Miriam (1980). Women composers: A checklist of works for the solo voice. A reference publication in women's studies. Boston, Mass: Hall. p. 104. ISBN978-0-8161-8498-9.
^Drone, Jeanette Marie (2007). Musical AKAs: assumed names and sobriquets of composers, songwriters, librettists, lyricists, hymnists, and writers on music. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. pp. 231, 567. ISBN978-0-8108-5739-1. OCLC62858081.
