Songs Without Words
Mirrie Irma Jaffa Hill was born on 1 December 1889 in the Sydney suburb of Randwick. She was the youngest of three, born to Levien Jaffa Solomon and Kate Caroline. She had a good ear early on, detecting dissonance and running out of the room whenever her aunt would play Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words". She studied composition with Alfred Hill, who would later become her husband, at Shirley School, Edgecliff.