Famous American Composers; Being a Study of the Music of This Country, And of Its Future, With Biographies of the Leading Composers of the Present Time

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He studied harmony, organ, and piano with John P. Morgan. After devoting some years to business, he committed his life to music, and in 1890 came to New York, where he studied singing. Later he went to London to continue his vocal studies.
Returning to New York, he took up counter- point and fugue with Horatio W. Parker, and composition a»id instrumentation with Dvorak.
After teaching Varmony for several years, he 3/2 Contemporary American Composers.
went to Boston, where he now Uves. His work
...has been almost altogether the compo- sition of songs. A notable feature of his numerous publications is their agreeable diver- sion from the usual practice of composers, which is to write lyrics of wide range and high pitch. Nearly all his songs are written for the average voice.
His first opus contains a setting of " Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt," which I like better than the banal version Tschaikowski made of the sam.e words. The third opus contains three songs to Shelley's words. They show some- thing of the intellectual emotion of the poet.


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