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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."
This is a list of compositions by the American composer Amy Beach ... Gaelic Symphony, e, 1894 ... 1916 (1920), ed. J. Graziano, American Chamber Music, Three ...
About the 1900 premiere, the critic Philip Hale wrote that it was "a disappointment in nearly every way," despite expectations based on the Gaelic Symphony. [4] Dedicatee Teresa Carreño wrote a friendly letter to Beach but because of objections from her manager, did not perform the concerto.
Amy Cheney made her concert debut at age sixteen on October 18, 1883, in a "Promenade Concert" conducted by Adolph Neuendorff at Boston's Music Hall, where she played Chopin's Rondo in E-flat and was piano soloist in Moscheles's piano concerto No. 3 in G minor, to general acclaim: as biographer Fried Block comments, "[i]t is hard to imagine a more positive critical reaction to a debut," and ...
List of compositions by Amy Beach; G. Gaelic Symphony; M. Mass in E-flat (Beach) P. Piano Concerto (Beach) This page was last edited on 18 April 2020, at 02:32 (UTC ...
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) was an American composer.Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century.
In her life, Beach wrote a variety of things, from orchestral music like Gaelic Symphony to opera like Cabildo. She also wrote choral music, including Mass in E-Flat and more than 120 songs for voice and piano. Beach also was responsible for numerous articles on composition and pedagogical topics.