Wilhelm Aletter, a German-American pianist, was a prolific writer of light music and used five pseudonyms especially Alphonse Tellier, Leo Norden and Herbert Wells Thayer. Under his own name he published Happy Youth: Twelve Easy Pieces (2 vols.) and under the name Tellier he published Plainte d'amour (1908), almost certainly a transcription. Perhaps Hearts and Flowers was his best known piano piece