Arthur Bird

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Arthur H. Bird

Arthur Homer Bird (born July 23, 1856 in Belmont , Massachusetts , † December 22, 1923 in Berlin ) was an American composer , organist and pianist .

Life

In addition to his school education, Arthur Bird learned to play the piano and organ at a very early age from his father Horace and received violin lessons from his uncle Joseph Bird. He had his first public music appearances since 1871 as a church organist in the parishes in the Boston area . Arthur Bird graduated from Watertown High School when he was 17 . In 1875 Bird went to Berlin and studied there at the Royal Music Institute with Eduard Rohde , August Haupt and Carl Albert Löschhorn, among others . In 1876 he returned to Boston and took a position as organist and choirmaster at St. Matthews Church in Halifax , Canada . During this time Arthur Bird began to compose his first works and gave piano lessons at the Young Ladies' Seminary in Halifax and at the Mount St. Vincent Academy . In 1881 he continued his studies in composition and orchestral arrangement with Heinrich Urban at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin.

He spent the summers of 1885 and 1886 professionally and privately with Franz Liszt in Weimar . Arthur Bird found a friend and supporter in Franz Liszt. In addition to playing chess together, they also played four-handed piano . During this time Arthur Bird's Op.5 Carnival Scene for Piano 4-hands was created .

In 1888 he married the wealthy widow Wilhelmine Waldmann, and together they had a representative villa built by the architect Arnold Hartmann in Berlin-Grunewald in 1897/98 . Due to the changing economic situation in Germany in the prewar years of the First World War , Arthur Bird devoted himself less to composition and more to editorial work for various international newspapers. In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Arthur Bird composed more than 110 works, mainly between 1882 and 1890. He died in Berlin in 1923.

literature

  • Neil Butterworth: Dictionary of American Classical Composers. 2nd Edition. Routledge, New York 2005, ISBN 0-415-93848-1 , p. 46 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • William C. Loring: Arthur Bird, his life and Music. Newton Center, Mass., 1941, OCLC 82691111 .
  • William C. Loring: Arthur Bird, American Musician. G. Schirmer, New York 1943, OCLC 59360761 .
  • William C. Loring: The music of Arthur Bird: an explanation of American composers of the eighties and nineties for bicentenial Americana programming. Loring, Atlanta 1974, OCLC 2618907 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter-Alexander Bösel: Berlin-Grunewald in historical views . Sutton Verlag, Erfurth 2006, ISBN 978-3-89702-853-1 , p. 105-106 .
  2. ^ Members: Arthur Bird. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ kaleidoscopewind.com: Arthur Bird Biography ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 26, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kaleidoscopewind.com
  4. ↑ musicofyesterday.com: Arthur Bird 1856-1923 biography , accessed July 26, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bird, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bird, Arthur H .; Bird, Arthur Homer (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, organist and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Belmont
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1923
Place of death Berlin