Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach , b. Cheney ( September 5, 1867 in Henniker , New Hampshire - December 27, 1944 , New York City ) was an American composer , pianist and the first American woman to write a symphony , breaking into what was then a male domain.
Life
Amy Cheney was considered a child prodigy . It is said that by the age of one she was able to sing 40 different melodies. A year later she began improvising the second voice and taught herself to read when she was three . She also cultivated her autodidactic skills as a composer : she only learned how to orchestrate an orchestra from Hector Berlioz 's book on instrumentation . At the age of four she once performed a piano piece from memory, but a semitone higher because the piano was out of tune and she wanted the original sound.
As the musical representative of the USA at the world exhibition in Chicago in 1893 , she became known in music circles and among advocates of women's emancipation .
After the death of her husband in 1910, Beach went on a three-year tour to Europe, where she gave concerts with her own piano works. In 1914 she returned to the United States and spent some time in the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough , New Hampshire . Since the 1920s she lived in New York and worked at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue in Manhattan , the largest episcopal congregation in the city. She had to give up this position in 1940 because of a heart disease from which she died in 1944.
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Your piano music has echoes of romanticism and the burgeoning “new music” at the same time . In 2011 the piano works were published in an edition of 3 CDs on Guild Records. Her most famous works today are
- Symphony in E minor "The Gaelic" op. 32 (1894–1896)
- Concerto for piano and orchestra op.45 (1899)
- Sonata in A minor for violin and piano op.34 (1896)
- Pastorale for wind quintet op.151 (1942)
- Furthermore various choral works and mass , as well
- Piano works and other chamber music .
Web links
- Works by and about Amy Beach in the catalog of the German National Library
- Amy Beach. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
- Amy Beach website
- Amy Beach sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- A classic style minuet composed at the age of 10
- Amy Beach - Summer Dreams Op.47 (1901) - YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Einsiedlerdrossels Gesang in: FAZ from July 14, 2011, page 30.
- ↑ Catalog of works on the Amy Beach website.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beach, Amy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cheney, Amy Marcy (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Henniker , New Hampshire |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 27, 1944 |
| Place of death | New York City |