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Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. [2] Born in Little Rock, Arkansas , Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music , and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953.
Price, date unknown. The Symphony in E minor is the first symphony written by the American composer Florence Price.The work was completed in 1932 and was first performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Frederick Stock in June 1933.
Price, date unknown. The Symphony No. 3 in C minor is a symphony for orchestra composed by Florence Price in 1938. The work was commissioned by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project during the height of the Great Depression.
Many of Price's works, including this, were lost for a long time and were found again in 2009. Ethiopia's Shadow was performed by the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra in January 2015. [ 3 ] On September 30, 2018, Jordan Randall Smith conducted the Hopkins Concert Orchestra in a performance he claims is the first East Coast performance.
Price, date unknown. The Symphony No. 4 in D minor is an orchestral symphony by the American composer Florence Price.Composed in 1945, the work was never performed during Price's life and was presumed lost until it was discovered among a stash of manuscripts in her former summer home outside of St. Anne, Illinois, in 2009.
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Stock and the Chicago Symphony debuted the Symphony in E minor by Florence Price on June 15, 1933, Price's first symphony and the first composition by an African-American woman to be played by a major orchestra. Stock's most memorable recordings were of Romantic repertory by Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Goldmark and Glazunov.
Florence Price: Symphony No. 1 (1932) Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2, Op. 27 (1907) Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 9, Op. 208 "Im Sommer" (1878) [26] [27] Franz Xaver Richter: Sinfonia (ca. 1740, published 1744) [28] Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 1, Op. 1 (revised version of 1884) Jean Rivier: Symphony No.6 "Les Présages" (1956 ...