page_title: Henriette Blanke-Belcher
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Henriette Blanke-Belcher / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: The sheet music for Henriette Blanke-Belcher's "Maxine Waltzes" (1910); cover is a symmetrical art nouveau design, with a yellow circle in the center and the title above that in a blue box.
context_page_description: Henriette Blanke-Belcher, also known as Henrietta Blanke-Belcher and later as Henriette B. Melson, was an American composer of popular music, especially waltzes and ragtime tunes.
context_section_description: Henriette Blanke worked for Whitney-Warner Publishing Company and Jerome H. Remick, music publishing companies in Detroit. They published many of her compositions. She performed on vaudeville in 1909, and a number of recordings of her compositions were made between 1905 and 1926. "I want to become known as a waltz writer exclusively," she said in 1902, but she also wrote ballads and novelty songs.
  Compositions by Blanke-Belcher included "Lazarre Waltzes" (1901), "Francezka Waltzes" (1902, named for the novel by Molly Eliot Seawell), "Hearts Courageous: Waltzes" (1902), "Cubanola: A Spanish Love Serenade" (1902), "Under the Rose: Waltzes" (1903), "Peggy O'Neal Waltzes" (1903), "My Wigwam Queen" (1903, words by James O'Dea), "Colleen: An Irish Love Song" (1903, words by Eddie Dustin), "My Lady of the North Waltzes" (1904), "Hearts' Haven Waltzes" (1905),  "When the Mockingbirds are Singing in the Wild Wood" (1906), "Stingy Moon" (1906, words by Will Heelan), "The Enchantress: Waltzes" (1907), "In the Good Old Irish Way" (1907, words by Will Heelan), "I Will Try" (1908, words by B. B. Ellison), "Marsovia: Waltzes" (1908), "The New Barn Dance" (1908), "Ain't You Coming Out To-night" (1909, words by Ren Shields), "Honeyland" (1909, words by Stanley Murphy), "Lonesome Land" (1909, words by Bartley Costello), "I'll Do Anything But" (1909, words by Alfred Bryan), "Telling Lies" (1910, words by Irving Berlin), "Love Dreams" (1910, words by F. J. Crawford), "Maxine: Valse" (1910, named for her young daughter), "Put Your Head Upon my Shoulder" (1910, words by Alfred Bryan), "Just as Long as the Swanee Flows" (1911), "My Irish Girl" (1911, words by Alfred Bryan), "My Only One" (1911, words by William Parquet), "Polaire Waltzes" (1912), and, during World War I, "Loyalty Waltz" (1918).
caption: The sheet music for Henriette Blanke-Belcher's "Maxine Waltzes" (1910)
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