Edward Burlingame Hill

Edward Burlingame Hill (born September 9, 1872 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , † July 9, 1960 in Francestown , New Hampshire ) was an American composer .

Life

Edward Burlingame Hill was the son of Harvard University chemist Henry Barker Hill . He studied until 1894 at the Harvard University , and was then in Boston student of John Knowles Paine , Frederick Field Bullard , Margaret Ruthven Lang and George Whiting , in Paris by Charles-Marie Widor and finally back in Boston by George Whitefield Chadwick . Since 1908 he taught at Harvard University, from 1928 as a professor. His students there included u. a. Leonard Bernstein , Elliott Carter and Virgil Thomson . In 1916 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 1929 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Hill composed, among other things, four symphonies , four symphonic poems , two orchestral pantomimes, two orchestral suites, two piano concertos , a violin concerto , a concerto for cor anglais, chamber music works, jazz studies for two pianos, a choir ode and a cantata . Stylistically, he fused elements from impressionism , jazz and neoclassicism .

literature

• Linda L. Tyler: Edward Burlingame Hill: A Bio-Bibliography . Greenwood Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-313-25525-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Charles H. Kaufman, Jonas Westover:  Hill, Edward Burlingame. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
2. ↑ TW R: Henry Barker Hill . In: Science . tape 17 , no. 439 , May 29, 1903, pp. 841-843 , doi : 10.1126 / science.17.439.841 , PMID 17740796 .
3. ↑ Edward Burlingame Hill at Allmusic (English)
4. ^ Members: Edward Burlingame Hill. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 4, 2019 .