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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
Born: 5th September 1867, Henniker, New Hampshire, U.S.A
Died: 27th December 1944, New York, U.S.A
Nationality: American
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers. As a pianist, she was acclaimed for concerts she gave featuring her own music in the United States and in Germany.
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American Quintets from the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
28th May 2021
An arresting debut album from the shape-shifting ensemble features piano quintets by Amy Beach and Florence Price, plus Samuel Barber's Dover Beach with bass Matthew Rose in superb voice.
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Popular Works: Beach, A
- 4 Sketches Op. 15 (8)
- 5 Improvisations For Piano, Op. 148 (4)
- A Hermit Thrush at Eve, Op. 92 No. 1 (11)
- A Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op. 92 No. 2 (7)
- A Mirage, Op. 100 No. 1 (Text: Bertha Ochsner) (4)
- Ah, Love, but a day! Op. 44, No. 2 (5)
- Ballad Op. 6 (5)
- Berceuse, Op. 40 No. 2 (4)
- By the Still Waters, Op. 114 (8)
- Cabildo, Op. 149 (3)
- Children’s Carnival, Op. 25 (3)
- Compositions (3), Op. 40 (3)
- From Grandmother’s Garden, Op. 97 (3)
- In the Twilight, Op. 85 (4)
- Invocation, Op. 55 (4)
- Juni (June), Op. 51 No. 3 (4)
- Nocturne op.107 (7)
- Out of the Depths, Op. 130 (3)
- Pastorale for Wind Quartet, Op. 151 (5)
- Peace I leave with you, Op. 8, No. 3 (4)
- Piano Concerto, Op. 45 (11)
- Piano Pieces (3), Op. 128 (4)
- Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor Op. 67 (6)
- Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150 (9)
- Prelude & Fugue Op. 81 (4)
- Rendezvous (Text: Leonora Speyer) (4)
- Romance, Op. 23 (26)
- Scottish Legend, Op. 54, No. 1 (6)
- Sketches (4) Op. 15 No. 3: Dreaming (4)
- Sonata in A minor for violin and piano, Op. 34 (11)
- Songs (2), Op. 100 (6)
- Stella Viatoris, Op. 100 No. 2 (TExt: Jessie Hague Nettleton) (4)
- Summer Dreams, Op. 47 (7)
- Symphony in E minor, Op. 32, "Gaelic Symphony" (6)
- The Year's at the Spring, Op. 44 No. 1 (4)
- Theme and Variations for flute & string quartet, Op. 80 (8)
- Three Browning Songs, Op. 44 (10)
- Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37 (Texts: William Shakespeare) (3)
- Tyrolean Valse-Fantasie op.116 (3)
- Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60 (7)
