Amy Beach Piano Music

by Amy Beach

Book Overview

Although composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) was precociously talented as a pianist (she made her professional debut at 16), she was largely self-taught as a composer. Through a careful study of the masters, she guided herself into a remarkably prolific and successful career. Her Gaelic Symphony, performed in 1896 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was the first symphonic work by an American woman. Later identified in print as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486416801
• ISBN13: 9780486416809
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 9.0" x 11.9"