Arthur Foote

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Arthur William Foote (born March 5, 1853 in Salem , Massachusetts , † April 8, 1937 in Boston , Massachusetts) was an American composer.

Together with John Knowles Paine , Horatio Parker , George Chadwick , Edward MacDowell and Amy Beach he is counted to the Second New England School , which is considered to be the founder of independent classical music in the USA.

life and work

Foote studied at the Boston Conservatory with Stephen Albert Emery and at Harvard University with John Knowles Paine. He then took lessons from the organist Benjamin Johnson Lang and became a music teacher and organist in Boston.

He composed two orchestral suites, two overtures , four character pieces for orchestra ( Four Character Pieces after the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ), a serenade for strings, chamber music works, choral ballads, piano pieces and songs .

In 1913 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

Chamber music

  • String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 4
  • Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 5
  • Sonata for violin and piano in G minor op.20
  • Piano quartet in C major op.23
  • String quartet No. 2 in E major (from this only movement 3 "Tema con variationi" published as op. 32)
  • Piano quintet in A minor, op.38
  • Melody for violin & piano, op.44
  • Piano Trio No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 65
  • Ballade for violin & piano, op.69
  • String quartet No. 3 in D major op.70
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano in E minor op.78 (also version for viola)

Orchestral works

  • In the Mountains , concert overture op.14
  • Francesca da Rimini , concert overture op.24
  • Serenade in E major for string orchestra op.25
  • Violoncello Concerto in G minor op.33
  • Suite in D minor op.36
  • Four Pieces after the Rubáiját of Omar Khayyám op. 48
  • Suite in E major for string orchestra op.63

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