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Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Adrienne Fried Block
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-12-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944), the most widely performed composer of her generation, was the first American woman to succeed as a creator of large-scale ar
Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Adrienne Fried Block
Categories: Composers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This biography admirably fills that gap, fully examining the connections between Beach's life and work in light of social currents and dominant ideologies. Adri
I Came a Stranger
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Hilda Polacheck
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-03 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout
Louise Talma
Language: en
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Authors: Kendra Preston Leonard
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American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an o
The Cambridge Companion to Amy Beach
Language: en
Pages: 295
Authors: E. Douglas Bomberger
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The first book in twenty-five years to survey the life and music of America's pioneering female composer of concert works.