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Amy Beach
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Amy Marcy Beach (1867–1944), was a U.S. pianist and composer of classical music. She was the first successful female U.S. composer. Many of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs H.H.A. Beach. She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on the 5th September 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire into a family of important political, military, and business figures. A child prodigy, she could sing forty songs by the age of one, and composed her first song at the age of four. She made her professional debut in Boston in 1883, and shortly thereafter appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Following her marriage in 1885 to Dr Henry H.A. Beach, a Boston surgeon, however, she largely stopped performing (at his request) and devoted herself instead to composition. After her husband died in 1910, she toured Europe as a pianist, playing her own compositions. She returned to America in 1914, where she spent time at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She died on the 27th December 1944 in New York City. Her compositions include the Gaelic Symphony (1893), the Mass in E flat Major, a piano concerto, a piano quintet, a quantity of choral music, chamber music (including the Pastorale for winds), piano music, and the opera Cabildo (1932). She was most popular, however, for her songs. Her style of writing is mainly in a Romantic idiom, and is often compared to Brahms, although in her later works she experimented with techniques such as whole tone scales (by w
top songs
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Young Birches, Op. 128, No. 2
57,0332By the Still Waters, Op. 114
47,54833 Compositions, Op. 40: No. 2, Berceuse
25,26544 Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3. Dreaming (arr. for cello and piano)
9,6865Dreaming, Op. 15: No. 3
4,15964 Sketches, Op. 15: III. Dreaming
3,3247Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: III. Largo
3,0188Peace I Leave With You
2,9849Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 45: II. Scherzo: Vivaco (Perpetuum mobile)
2,83810Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
2,492albums
Beach: Variations on Balkan Themes Op. 60, Maria Funerale, Cadenza, Scottish Legend Op. 54 No. 1, etc.
Beach: By the Still Waters, Op. 114
Beach: Violin Sonata in A Minor / String Quartet, Op. 89 / Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet / Dreaming
BEACH: Piano Concerto / 'Gaelic' Symphony
Beach: Dreaming
4 Sketches, Op. 15: III. Dreaming
Romance for Violin and Piano, Op. 23
Violin Lullabies
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Canticle of the Sun
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Story Of American Classical Music (The)
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Beach: Violin Sonata in A Minor / String Quartet, Op. 89 / Pastorale for Woodwind Quintet /