Composer
Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
1867–1944
121 works and musical collections
- Born
- 1867
- Died
- 1944
- Birthplace
- Henniker
- Place of death
- New York City
- Citizenship / historical state
- United States
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Modern
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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Life and musical career
- Teachers
- Ernst Perabo; Carl Baermann; Junius Welch Hill
- Instruments played
- piano
- Genres
- opera
- Birth name
- Amy Marcy Cheney
- Languages used
- English
- VIAF ID
- 79577359
- ISNI
- 0000000373029149
- GND ID
- 118968157
- Library of Congress ID
- n81018433
- MusicBrainz ID
- 2b7d0667-95d0-4004-930a-dcac2338a631
Recorded in Wikidata. Affiliations may refer to earlier stages of the composer's career.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Voice, Organ, Flute, Low Voice
- Genres represented
- Classical, Pop
- Source entries with composition dates
- 23
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
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Instruments describe listed editions, including arrangements. Composition dates and keys appear where recorded; collection pages show their individual contents.
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 79577359. Portrait: George Grantham Bain Collection, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.