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Portrait photograph of William Henry Fry. William Henry Fry (August 10, 1813 – December 21, 1864) was an American composer, music critic, and journalist.Fry was the first known person born in the United States to write for a large symphony orchestra, and the first to compose a publicly performed opera. [1]
Symphony Hall, Boston, the main base of the orchestra since 1900. The earliest American classical music consists of part-songs used in religious services during Colonial times. The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]
Florence Price (1887–1953), American composer of 4 symphonies, the second of which (c. 1935) is lost; her first (1932) is recognized as the first symphony by an African-American female composer; Yuri Shaporin (1887–1966), Russian composer of 2 symphonies; Heinz Tiessen (1887–1971), German composer of 2 symphonies
The following is a chronological list (by year of birth) of American composers of classical music. Baroque ... Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society.
Often referred to as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers," Still was the first American composer to have an opera produced by the New York City Opera. [5] He is known primarily for his first symphony, Afro-American Symphony (1930), [6] which was, until 1950, the most widely performed symphony composed by an American. [7]
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
W. S. B. Matthews' A Hundred Years of Music in America is the first attempt at a history of "popular and the higher music education" in the country; it hails Lowell Mason as the founder of American music. [24] [56] The first African American woman to compose a produced opera is Louisa Melvin Delos Mars, with Leoni, the Gypsy Queen. [57]
She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers to succeed without the benefit of European training, and one of the most ...