Louis Adolphe Coerne (February 27, 1870 September 11, 1922) was an American composer and music educator. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and was educated at Harvard University, ...view moreLouis Adolphe Coerne (February 27, 1870 September 11, 1922) was an American composer and music educator. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, and was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and at the Stuttgart Conservatory, Germany.He married Adele Turton in 1897. Coerne wrote a number of pedagogical pieces for piano, and also composed a number of orchestral works, one of which, the tone poem Excalibur, Op. 180, was recorded by Karl Krueger with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the late 1960s, and reissued on CD in 2006 by Bridge Records. His cantata, Hiawatha, Op. 18 was premiered in Munich in 1893 and performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1894.view less