
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (Composer)
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 to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era. 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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Popular Works: Beach, A
- A Hermit Thrush at Morn, Op. 92 No. 2 (2)
- Ah, Love, but a day! Op. 44, No. 2 (3)
- Ballad Op. 6 (2)
- Barcarolle, Op. 28 No. 1 (4)
- Children’s Album, Op. 36 (3)
- Children’s Carnival, Op. 25 (2)
- Compositions (3), Op. 40 (3)
- Deine Blumen (Flowers and Fate), Op. 72, No. 2 (1)
- Eskimos - Four Characteristic Pieces, Op. 64 (3)
- Festival Jubilate, Op. 17 (1)
- From Blackbird Hills, Op. 83 (2)
- From Grandmother’s Garden op. 97, No. 5: Honeysuckle (2)
- From Grandmother’s Garden, Op. 97 (2)
- Hermit Thrush, Op. 92 (1)
- I Send My Heart Up To Thee, Op. 44, No. 3 (2)
- Invocation, Op. 55 (3)
- Juni (June), Op. 51 No. 3 (2)
- Mass in E-flat major, Op.5 (2)
- Mazurka, Op. 40 No. 3 (1)
- Pastorale (2)
- Pastorale for Wind Quartet, Op. 151 (2)
- Piano Concerto, Op. 45 (2)
- Piano Quintet in F Sharp Minor Op. 67 (2)
- Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150 (2)
- Quartet for strings in one movement, Op. 89 (2)
- Romance, Op. 23 (3)
- Scottish Legend, Op. 54, No. 1 (4)
- Sketches (4) Op. 15 No. 1: In Autumn (3)
- Sketches (4) Op. 15 No. 3: Dreaming (3)
- Sketches (4) Op. 15 No. 4: Fire-Flies (3)
- Sonata in A minor for violin and piano, Op. 34 (3)
- Symphony No. 2 in E minor 'Gaelic' (10)
- The Canticle of the Sun, Op. 123 (2)
- The Chambered Nautilus, Op. 66 (2)
- The Sea-Fairies, Op. 59 (3)
- The Year's at the Spring, Op. 44 No. 1 (6)
- Theme and Variations for flute & string quartet, Op. 80 (3)
- Three Browning Songs, Op. 44 (3)
- Three Movements for Piano Four-Hands (1)
- Variations on Balkan Themes, Op. 60 (2)