Arthur Nevin
Arthur Finley Nevin (born April 27, 1871 in Edgeworth / Pennsylvania , † July 10, 1943 in Sewickley ) was an American composer, conductor and music teacher.
Ethelbert Nevin's younger brother studied at the Boston Conservatory from 1889 to 1893. Until 1897 he continued his training in Berlin with Karl Klindworth and Engelbert Humperdinck . After his return to the USA he worked as a teacher and conductor in various cities. Among other things, he was professor at the University of Kansas from 1915 to 1920 and conductor of the Memphis Orchestra from 1920 to 1922.
1902–03 Nevin studied the music of the Blackfoot in Montana. The result of the studies was the opera Poia, based on an Indian legend, which premiered in 1910 at the Royal Opera in Berlin. The one-act opera Twilight was composed in 1911, but was not premiered until 1918 under the title A Daughter of the Forest in Chicago under the direction of the composer. Nevin also composed chamber music works - including a string quartet in D minor (1929) and the string quartet At the Spring , a piano trio, piano pieces and songs - the cantatas The Djinns (1913) and Roland (1914) and orchestral works such as the Lorna Doone Suite (1897), the Miniature Suite (1902), Springs of Saratoga (1911), the Love Dreams Suite (1914), Sinfonic Poem (1930), Arizona (1935), the Bakawali Dances and a piano concerto.
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- Neil Butterworth: Dictionary of American Classical Composers , Routledge Revised Edition, 2013, ISBN 9781136790249 , p. 326
- Don Michael Randel: "The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians" , Harvard University Press, 1999, ISBN 9780674000841 , p. 451
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| SURNAME | Nevin, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nevin, Arthur Finley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, conductor and music educator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edgeworth, Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1943 |
| Place of death | Sewickley |