AMY M. BEACH

AMY M. BEACH (1867-1944) [aka Mrs. H. H. A. Beach] was born in Henniker, New Hampshire, and show great musical ability from an early age— singing forty songs at age one, reading by age three, and composing by age four. She studied piano privately and studied harmony and counterpoint as a young teenager. On her own, she studied books on theory, composition and orchestration. She became recognized as a significant American composer. Her Mass in E-flat major, which was the first piece composed by a woman to be performed by the Handel and Haydn Society orchestra, and her Gaelic Symphony was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman, first premiered by the Boston Symphony. She became identified with the Second New England School of American composers, and known as the Boston Six. She was recognized as a virtuoso pianist and toured extensively in Germany, New England, and throughout the US. She published over 600 works. She composed in almost every genre, but the bulk of her work was art songs and vocal chamber music.

 

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May Eve

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