Harry Newton Redman (December 26, 1869 - December 26, 1958) was an American composer, writer, and artist, born in Mount Carmel, Illinois. He wrote mainly chamber music, including five string quartets, and some songs. He was also active as a painter, and wrote a musical dictionary.
He studied under George Chadwick at the New England Conservatory. Chadwick hired him as a professor in piano and composition in 1898, a position he held until his retirement in 1940. [1] He became a member of the Handel and Haydn Society in 1890. [2] Jesús María Sanromá [3] and Elliot Griffis [4] were among his students.
His music was first commercially recorded in 2013. [5] There is an extant recording of an excerpt of his Creole String Quartet from a 1938 broadcast played by the Forum String Quartet of Boston for the "Works Progress Administration Presents" radio programs, part of the Federal Music Project. [6] [7]
During the 1900s he amassed a large collection of American Impressionist art, including works by Edmnund Tarbell, Willard Metcalf, Charles Davis, George Lorenzo Noyes, William McGregor Paxton, and Louis Kronberg. [8] Samuel Burtis Baker painted his portrait. [9] He began painting in the 1920s; his own paintings were exhibited throughout the U.S. northeast during and after his life, including at the 1930 Carnegie International. [10] [11] In 1933 the Museum of Fine Arts purchased his landscape The Ridge. [12] In a Redman exhibit at the Childs Gallery a few years after his death, Boston Globe art critic noted: "Redman's was a personal art, blending with real fascination the sophisticated theorist and the technically naieve." [13]
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.
Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice. His initial works are influenced by German Romanticism, but after he relinquished the German style, his later works make him the most famous American representative of musical Impressionism, along with Charles Martin Loeffler. He was fascinated by the exotic, mysterious sound of the French Impressionists, and was compositionally much influenced by them while he was in Europe. He also studied the work of contemporary Russian composers such as Scriabin, whose influence is also apparent in his use of synthetic scales.
Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, poet, and occultist. He created around four hundred musical compositions including piano, violin, cello concertos, symphonies, and operas. He also wrote around 20 pamphlets and books on occult topics and natural health.
Hilding Constantin Rosenberg was a Swedish composer and conductor. He is commonly regarded as the first Swedish modernist composer, and one of the most influential figures in 20th-century classical music in Sweden.
Frederick Shepherd Converse, was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies.
Samuel Hans Adler is an American composer, conductor, author, and professor. During the course of a professional career which ranges over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. In addition, he is credited with founding and conducting the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra which participated in the cultural diplomacy initiatives of the United States in Germany and throughout Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Adler's musical catalogue includes over 400 published compositions. He has been honored with several awards including Germany's Order of Merit – Officer's Cross.
Arthur Farwell was an American composer, conductor, educationalist, lithographer, esoteric savant, and music publisher. Interested in American Indian music, he became associated with the Indianist movement and founded the Wa-Wan Press to publish music in this genre. He combined teaching, composing and conducting in his career, working on both coasts and in Michigan.
Bernhard Sekles was a German composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue.
Arthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.
Henry Kimball Hadley was an American composer and conductor.
Otto Emanuel Olsson was a Swedish organist and classical music composer.
Alexei Vasilievich Haieff was an American composer of orchestral and choral works. He is known for following Stravinsky's neoclassicism, observing an austere economy of means, and achieving modernistic effects by a display of rhythmic agitation, often with jazzy undertones.
Felix Fox was a German-born concert pianist and educator.
Ruth Pierce Posselt was an American violinist and educator.
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John Elliot Griffis was an American composer.
Celius Hudson Dougherty was an American pianist and composer of art songs and other music.
Jacobo Ficher was a Russian-born Argentine composer, violinist, conductor, and music educator.
Adolfo Odnoposoff was an Argentine-born-and-raised cellist of Russian ancestry who performed in concerts for 5 decades in South, Central, and North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and the former USSR. He had performed as principal cellist in the Israel Philharmonic and many of the important orchestras of Latin America. He had soloed with major orchestras under conductors that include Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Juan José Castro, Rafael Kubelik, Victor Tevah, Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Carlos Chavez, Paul Kletzki, Luis Ximénez Caballero (es), Willem van Otterloo, Sir John Barbirolli, Eduardo Mata, Antal Doráti, Jorge Sarmientos (es), Erich Kleiber, George Singer (1908–1980), Ricardo del Carmen (1937-2003), Anshel Brusilow, Pau Casals and Enrique Gimeno. He also performed a Khachaturian work under the direction of Khachaturian.
Samuel Burtis Baker, commonly known as Burt Baker, was an American artist and teacher, best known for his portrait paintings.
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