This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...work is music for musicians; his rather ascetic, somewhat undramatic, style can scarcely appeal strongly to the masses, --which is a failing that leans to virtue's side. At his best he is a really great composer (least so, perhaps, in songs or piano pieces), but the copiousness of his writing hardly does ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...work is music for musicians; his rather ascetic, somewhat undramatic, style can scarcely appeal strongly to the masses, --which is a failing that leans to virtue's side. At his best he is a really great composer (least so, perhaps, in songs or piano pieces), but the copiousness of his writing hardly does justice to the loftier numbers of his repertoire. He has received a most remarkable compliment for an American musician, the honorary degree of Mus. Doc. from Cambridge University, England. Earnest, dramatic, passionate, and romantic, Edward Alexander MacDowell (Pl. V) is most powerful in just the field where Parker is least strong. The training of MacDowell served to nourish just those qualities which were to a certain degree innate, with the most fortunate results. He was born in New York, December 18, 1861, and his best and chief teacher was the tropical and fiery Teresa Car-reno. To her he has dedicated his Second Piano Concerto. But many other teachers contributed to equip this most dashing of American composers. He went to Paris in 1876, and enrolled himself in the conservatory there, studying theory with Savard, and piano under Marmontel. In 1879 he went to Wiesbaden, where he studied with Ehlert for a time. Then to Frankfort, where Karl Heymann taught him piano and, best of all, Joachim Raff guided him in composition. This was the chief influence in the career of MacDowell, for Raff taught him routine work as no other could have done, and it was too late for the elegant vein of Raff to import effeminacy into the virile style of his pupil. Possibly because the two were opposites in their natures they became friends, and, through the influence of Raff, MacDowell became a prominent piano teacher in the conservatory at Darmstadt, when he was..
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