Amy Beach
Amy Beach
Genres: Classical, american, piano, composer, women composers
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About Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Beach (1867–1944), was a U.S. pianist and composer of classical music. She was the first successful female U.S. composer. Many of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs H.H.A. Beach. She was born Amy Marcy Cheney on the 5th September 1867 in Henniker, New Hampshire into a family of important political, military, and business figures. A child prodigy, she could sing forty songs by the age of one, and composed her first song at the age of four. She made her professional debut in Boston in 1883, and shortly thereafter appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Following her marriage in 1885 to Dr Henry H.A. Beach, a Boston surgeon, however, she largely stopped performing (at his request) and devoted herself instead to composition. After her husband died in 1910, she toured Europe as a pianist, playing her own compositions. She returned to America in 1914, where she spent time at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. She died on the 27th December 1944 in New York City. Her compositions include the Gaelic Symphony (1893), the Mass in E flat Major, a piano concerto, a piano quintet, a quantity of choral music, chamber music (including the Pastorale for winds), piano music, and the opera Cabildo (1932). She was most popular, however, for her songs. Her style of writing is mainly in a Romantic idiom, and is often compared to Brahms, although in her later works she experimented with techniques such as whole tone scales (by which time they were no longer a novelty). On the 9th July 2000 at Boston's famous Hatch Shell, the Boston Pops paid tribute to Amy Beach. Her name was added to the granite wall on "The Shell". It joins the names of eight-six other composers such as Bach, Handel, Chopin, Debussy, Edward MacDowell, and Beethoven. Amy Beach is the only woman composer on the granite wall.
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Amy Beach — Top 29 songs
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Amy Beach | Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra in do diesis minore | ||
| Amy Beach | Sinfonia in mi minore. Gaelica | ||
| Amy Beach | By the Still Waters | ||
| Amy Beach | The Brownies | ||
| Amy Beach | Dreaming | ||
| Amy Beach | Serenade voor piano | ||
| Amy Beach | Berceuse (Lullaby), No. 2 from Three Compositions, Op. 40 | ||
| Amy Beach | Piano Trio Op.150 | ||
| Amy Beach | Piano Concerto in c# Op.45 | ||
| Amy Beach | Les Reves de Colombine Op 65 | ||
| Amy Beach | Children's Carnival | ||
| Amy Beach | Romance for Violin and Piano | ||
| Amy Beach | Piano Quintet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 67 | ||
| Amy Beach | Three Pieces for Piano Four Hands: III. Allegro con fuoco | ||
| Amy Beach | Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 | ||
| Amy Beach | Klavierkonzert cis-Moll | ||
| Amy Beach | Gaelic Symphony | ||
| Amy Beach | Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 | ||
| Amy Beach | Romance voor viool en piano, op.23 | ||
| Amy Beach | Peace I leave with you | ||
| Amy Beach | By the Still Waters Op 114 | ||
| Amy Beach | Four Sketches: Fire-flies | ||
| Amy Beach | Summer Dreams for Piano Four Hands op. 47: VI. Good night | ||
| Amy Beach | Les Reves de Colombine: Danse d'Arlequin Op 65 | ||
| Amy Beach | Romanza per violino e pianoforte, in la maggiore | ||
| Amy Beach | Symphony "Gaelic" in e Op 32 | ||
| Amy Beach | Cabildo, Op. 149: Ladies and gentlemen! We will now proceed to the grand staircase (Barker, Mary, Tom, Prisoners, Pierre) | ||
| Amy Beach | Symphony in e minor (Gaelic) op.32 Part 2 | ||
| Amy Beach | Moderato cantabile |