Margot Vesel

Born in Watertown, South Dakota, the daughter of musicians who emigrated to the US from Germany in 1929. The family later relocated to Sandstone, Minnesota. There Margot married a local farmer and started a family all the while continuing to play and composer at the piano. Completely self-taught, Margot formed her own publishing company and taught herself to engrave music. Her pieces soon found acceptance in regional music stores. As her pieces gained recognition locally, Margot published more. In total, she composed nearly 100 pieces for solo piano, piano ensemble and vocal solo with piano.

“I have not”, Margot remarked, “reached out as far as I would like, but perhaps someday people from coast-to-coast will have heard my music. They may or may not like it, but at least they will have had an opportunity to hear it.”