'Verne' Bredt, Alice Barbara Wurm 9.aug.1868-12.apr.1958 England, Southampton - London Kensington
pianist, piano teacher, born at 12 Portland Street, 1893 she adopted the pseudonym Verne from her sister Mathilde and was known professionally as Alice Verne and Alice Verne-Bredt, she sang and played violin and hoped for a career as a singer of light opera but turned to the piano partly because thypoid had ruined her voice, studied piano with Marie Schumann in London, she accompanied her sisters on concert tours, 1908 she won a prize in the Phantasie for strings competition by the Worshipful Company of Musicians, 15.feb.1909 with her sister Mathilde she opened the Mathilde Verne Pianoforte School at the home of Alice and her husband 194 Cromwell Road in Kensington where she taught the juniors which she later organized as department Childrens College of Music, 1947 she was in Leipzig Germany, 1949-1959 residing with her husband at 19 Gunterstone Road in Kensington, she died at Fulham Hospital ; daughter of pianist/professor of music John Evangelist Wurm (Germany, Obersdorf 1828-19.mar.1892 Southampton) and professor of music Marie Sophie Niggl (Germany, Denklingen 1833-1882 London Kensington) ; sister of composers Mary Wurm, Mathilde Verne and Adela Verne ; 14.nov.1903 at the Oratory in Brompton she married merchant/composer William Bredt