Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 by Adrienne Fried Block

Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944

Adrienne Fried Block

448 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography music informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, given its premiere by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...

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