Amy Beach

Biography

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.

She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected American composers.

She was acclaimed for piano concerts she gave, featuring her own music, in the United States and Europe.

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