Stephen Albert Emery

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Stephen Albert Emery (born October 4, 1841 in Paris , Maine , † April 15, 1891 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American composer and music teacher.

The son of lawyer and judge Stephen Emery studied after his initial training in Portland from 1862 to 1864 in Leipzig with Louis Plaidy , Benjamin Robert Papperitz , Ernst Friedrich Richter and Moritz Hauptmann and in Dresden with Fritz Spindler . In 1864 he returned to Portland, in 1866 he moved to Boston.

Here he worked as a teacher of harmony at the New England Conservatory of Music from its founding in 1867 until his death. He was also Professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at Boston University and a contributor to the Musical Herald .

Emery composed more than 150 works, mainly sonatinas and other piano pieces, string quartets and songs, and published two music pedagogical writings: Foundation Studies in Pianoforte Playing and Elements of Harmony .

literature

  • Louis Charles Elson: The History of American Music , Kessinger Publishing 2005, p. 342 ( [1] )