MacDowell, Edward Alexander
MacDowell, Edward Alexander( 1861–1908),New York-born composer, went abroad to study (1876) at Paris, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt, and taught piano at the Darmstadt Conservatory (1881–82). Before returning to the U.S. (1888), he composed his first and second piano concertos and other works for piano and orchestra. In Boston (1888–96), he taught, appeared as a concert pianist, and composed such piano works as the Twelve Virtuoso Studies, Woodland Sketches, the Tragica and Eroica sonatas, and many songs, tone poems, and the first and second (Indian) suites for orchestra. He headed Columbia's department of music (1896–1904), but after many difficulties resigned the post, and, exhausted and embittered, lost his reason after 1905. While at Columbia he produced his Norse and Keltic sonatas, the Sea Pieces, the Fireside Tales, and the New England Idyls, all for piano. MacDowell, like...
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