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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music . Her "Gaelic" Symphony , premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman.
This is a list of compositions by the American composer Amy Beach (1867–1944), mostly issued under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach. Opera.
Gaelic Symphony or Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 was written by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach in 1894; it was the first symphony composed and published by a female American composer. [1] The piece debuted in Boston on Friday, October 30, 1896 to "public and journalistic acclaim."
The Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45, is a composition for solo piano and orchestra in four movements by the American composer Amy Beach. The work was composed between September 1898 and September 1899.
Cabildo is the only opera by the American composer Amy Beach, her opus 149. This chamber opera is in one act and has a libretto by Nan Bagby Stephens. Beach composed the music in 1932 and made use of folksong and Creole tunes. [1] [2] However, the work was not performed in her lifetime and received its first performance in 1947.
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The Mass in E ♭, Op. 5, is a choral work by American composer Amy Beach. It was the first mass written by an American woman and Beach's first widely acclaimed large-scale composition. The Mass is a 75-minute work for chorus, quartet, organ, and orchestra. [1]