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  Edward MacDowell
MacDowell began piano lessons at age eight, as do many, but at age fifteen he was recognized as so good that he went to Europe to study, first in Paris, and then Germany, the home of Beethoven and Wagner and the center of 19th century musical development.
Edward was the third son of the marriage and, when he showed interest and some musical talent, he was given piano lessons at age eight which determined his future.
Edward died in New York in January, 1908, and is buried at the colony.
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 Edward Macdowell - Masters Of Music
Edward was their third son, and appeared December 18, 1861; this event happened at the home of his parents, 220 Clinton Street, New York.
Edward MacDowell remained in close study at the Frankfort Conservatory for two years, his mother having in the meantime returned to America.
MacDowell found that the confining labors at Darmstadt were telling on his strength, so he gave up the position and remained in Frankfort, dividing his time between private teaching and composing.
www.oldandsold.com /articles18/music-masters-21.shtml   (2598 words)

  
 Edward and Marian MacDowell Collection - Performing Arts Encyclopedia (Library of Congress)
In addition to Edward MacDowell’s music manuscripts and first editions of his music, the collection includes correspondence of the MacDowells, biographical materials, writings, programs, press clippings, business papers, and photographs.
Edward MacDowell donated to the Library of Congress his Zweite Suite, Op.
Templeton Strong gave 130 letters and 11 holograph scores in 1930; in 1969 the Edward MacDowell Association donated early records of the MacDowell Colony, supplementing this gift in the 1970s; in 1972, LC purchased a large collection of music manuscripts and papers.
www.loc.gov /performingarts/encyclopedia/collections/macdowell.html   (227 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell - A Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MacDowell and told her, to her astonishment, that he had shown the sketch to a certain very eminent painter—an instructor at the École de Beaux Arts—and that the painter had been so much impressed by the talent which it evidenced that he begged to propose to Mrs.
MacDowell, whose fixed principle it was to permit her son to decide his affairs according to his lights, thereupon considered with him the merits of various European Conservatories of reputation.
MacDowell and her son were not slow to avail themselves of this proposal, and the end of the year 1878 found them in Wiesbaden.
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 Jonathan Hiller's Edward MacDowell Page
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist, born in New York City.
MacDowell was one of the founding members of the American Academy in Rome, which to this day hosts American artists working in various fields.
In 1907, the MacDowell Colony was founded in Peterborough, thanks in great part to the tireless efforts of MacDowell's wife, Marian.
www.bol.ucla.edu /~jhiller/macdowell.html   (473 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell
MacDowell attacked his new academic duties with a gusto and imagination that won the respect of his students and especially his colleagues, some of whom had been extremely uncomfortable about the teaching of music in a liberal arts setting.
MacDowell's mental outlook took a turn for the worse, especially after a traffic accident in which he was knocked down by a hansom cab.
When it had seemed clear that MacDowell would never recover from his extended illness, his wife Marian determined to establish the Peterborough property as a memorial to her husband by making it available to creative artists in all fields as a refuge from the vicissitudes of everyday life.
www.eroica.com /phoenix/jdt148-emd.html   (1212 words)

  
 Biography: Edward MacDowell, 1860-1908 [biography]: The Library of Congress Presents: Music, Theater and Dance
Edward MacDowell was one of the most celebrated American composers in the nineteenth century.
Marian MacDowell, however, survived her husband by nearly five decades, spending the majority of her remaining years tending to the MacDowell Colony's operations.
After Marian's death in 1956, her estate sold MacDowell's materials to the Library of Congress in 1972, allowing researchers and scholars access to the holograph manuscripts, correspondence, and personal papers of one of America's most prominent composers.
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 Piano Forte News * Charles Fierro on the Music of Edward MacDowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
For one who has lived with the music of Edward MacDowell for twenty-five years, it is tempting to write of him as though he were in the pantheon of established composers.
To remember MacDowell solely as the composer of "To a Wild Rose" is as unfair as remembering Beethoven solely for "Fur Elise" or Brahms only for his "Lullaby".
MacDowell's rightful place in music history is up to the judgment of the listening public, of course, but this judgment cannot be made unless the music is played.
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 Edward MacDowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Alexander MacDowell (New York, December 18, 1860 - January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist, best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites "Woodland Sketches", "Sea Pieces", and "New England Idyls".
MacDowell himself was responsible for assigning his "Two Old Songs" (1894) an op.
In 1904, MacDowell was one of the first seven chosen for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_MacDowell   (1428 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Edward Macdowell: An American Master: Livres en anglais: Alan H. Levy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Edward MacDowell was one of the finest composers of nineteenth-century America.
In his lifetime, MacDowell's fame was widespread throughout Europe and the United States; his music was praised by none other than Franz Liszt, Jules Massenet, and Edvard Grieg.
While his fame was extensive, MacDowell's place in music began to fade after his untimely and tragic death in 1908, and his music and reputation has since suffered a certain neglect.
www.amazon.fr /Edward-Macdowell-American-Alan-Levy/dp/0810834634   (416 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) - famous Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) Classics hit collection and Edward MacDowell ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The American pianist and composer Edward MacDowell was one of the first American composers to achieve any degree of international fame.
MacDowell's two piano concertos were a useful vehicle for his own performance.
Songs by MacDowell include settings of poems by Heine, Goethe and other German poets, with solo songs and works for male voices with English texts, the latter written for his New York Mendelssohn Glee Club.
www.naxos.com /composerinfo/646.htm   (341 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell WORKS FOR PIANO performed by Alan Mandel
Where MacDowell and Grieg differ, however, is in the debt that their works pay to the Romantic performance tradition.
MacDowell, while he recognized the importance of a national identity in American music, did not emphasize American culture in his compositions to the extent that Grieg emphasized Norwegian culture.
Yes, MacDowell wrote music about American Indians and Uncle Remus, etc., but he clearly stated that nationalism was not a central feature of his career as a composer.
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 Edward Alexander Macdowell - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
EDWARD ALEXANDER MACDOWELL (1861-1908), American musical composer, was born in New York City on the 18th of December 1861.
MacDowell's work gives him perhaps the highest place among American composers.
Deeply influenced by modern French models and by German romanticism, full of poetry and "atmosphere," and founded on the "programme," idea of composition, it is essentially creative in the spirit of a searcher after delicate truths of artistic expression.
www.1911ency.org /M/MA/MACDOWELL_EDWARD_ALEXANDER.htm   (632 words)

  
 University of New Hampshire Library - Milne Special Collections and Archives - Edward MacDowell (MC 15)
Born in New York City in 1860, MacDowell studied music as a child and travelled to France at the age of 15 to begin a nine year residence in Europe.
By 1905, MacDowell suffered from what was diagnosed as "nervous exhaustion," an ailment that resulted in complete "cerebral collapse." He died in 1908 at the age of forty-six.
The MacDowell Colony of Peterborough NH, established by Marian MacDowell soon after her husband's death, was the "amazing realization of the composer's dream of an ideal environment for creative work in Music, Art and Literature." **See Porte, John F., Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet His Life and Music.
www.izaak.unh.edu /specoll/mancoll/macdowel.htm   (837 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell Lake Flood Control
On July 28, 1950, the dam was officially dedicated as the "Edward MacDowell Dam" in honor of this significant figure in the history of American music.
Edward MacDowell Dam is located on Nubanusit Brook.
Water flow is regulated through the dam by opening and closing the steel gates in the gatehouse.
www.nae.usace.army.mil /recreati/eml/emlfc.htm   (337 words)

  
 IHAS: Composer
merica's first internationally recognized composer, Edward MacDowell was born into a Quaker family of Scottish descent on December 18, 1861.
MacDowell immersed himself in not only advanced counterpoint and harmony, but also in the entire Romantic ethos.
In 1895 MacDowell founded an artistic colony in Peterborough, NH, which remains today a mecca for artists seeking a stimulating and reflective environment for creative work.
www.pbs.org /wnet/ihas/composer/macdowell.html   (346 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell sheet music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose: horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose: flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, bassoon
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose: soprano, 2 altos, tenor, bari sax
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 The Music Of Edward Macdowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Edward Macdowell was born on December 18 in New York City.
This same farm was later to become the MacDowell Colony, an artists retreat that exists to this day as a haven for artists, a place of tranquillity and solitude to nurture the creative process.
This page has a detailed biography of Edward MacDowell, descriptions of his music, complete with photos and some illustrations that MacDowell himself created.
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 The Dam House at Edward MacDowell Lake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
MacDowell was also one of seven founders of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
In 1896, at the age of 35, Edward MacDowell was appointed the first head of Columbia University's Music Department.
It was during this time that he and his wife, Marian, began to spend summers at their Peterborough farm, where Edward was able to compose in quiet isolation.
www.huntercustomproperties.com /EdwardMacDowell.html   (189 words)

  
 Amazon.com: MacDowell: Piano Works: Music: Edward MacDowell,Alan Mandel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Edward Macdowell Music — Sheet music for Edward macdowell at Sheet Music Plus.
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Macdowell's four sonatas are truly masterpieces, stunningly difficult and strikingly original.
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 Amazon.ca: V1 Pno Album: Music: Edward MacDowell,Fryderyk Chopin,Roger Quilter,Ernst von Dohnanyi,Ignace Jan ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
~ Edward MacDowell (Composer), Fryderyk Chopin (Composer), Roger Quilter (Composer), Ernst von Dohnanyi (Composer), Ignace Jan Paderewski (Composer), et al.
Composer: Edward MacDowell, Fryderyk Chopin, Roger Quilter, Ernst von Dohnanyi, Ignace Jan Paderewski, et al.
The Hexentanz of MacDowell (arr.Liszt) is a helter-skelter piece never stopping,scaling the upper regions of the keyboard,and this would be an encore work.
www.amazon.ca /V1-Pno-Album-Edward-MacDowell/dp/B00000C2KC   (1304 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell - classical music daily anniversary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Its composer, Edward MacDowell, was born in New York on 18 December 1861.
The music makes some use of native American and other folk themes, and is poetic, late-Romantic and European in feel, and has affinities with the music of Grieg.
Much of MacDowell's output is for piano, and most of the works were issued in collections, such as Woodland Sketches (1896), which includes the well-known To a Wild Rose.
www.mvdaily.com /articles/anniv.cgi?id=1372   (189 words)

  
 Edward Alexander MacDowell piano sheet music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Edward MacDowell: 12 Etudes for the Development of Technique and Style, Op.
Edward MacDowell: From the Depths Op.55 No. 6 (Myklas Press).....$2.95 alfred 88639-02.
Edward MacDowell - Piano Concerto with orchestral reduction for second piano
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 CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Edward MacDowell
Find the music of Edward MacDowell in the Archives.
MacDowell, Edward (Alexander) (b NY, 1860; d NY, 1908).
The MacDowell Colony in Peterboro, New Hampshire, where composers and other artists can work peacefully, was founded in his memory.
www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/macdowell.html   (157 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell eBook
The accompanying poems are interpretations of some of his best-known piano numbers, based upon the briefly indicated poetic idea upon which they are founded, reinforced by a careful intellectual study of each composition and its appeal to the individual creative faculty of the author.
The sonnet to MacDowell was written at the beginning of the two darkened years preceding his death, when he forgot that there was such a thing as music.
“The Spirit Call” is suggested by the Celtic vein of mystery and haunting sadness pervading most of the MacDowell music.
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 Edward MacDowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The best-known American composer of his day, Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) wrote numerous descriptive short pieces for solo piano-- miniature tone poems inspired by poetry, fairy tales, nature, and in particular, the New England countryside.
Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the life and work of Edward MacDowell, 1861-1908: professor of music in Columbia University 1896-1904: together with the addresses delivered at the opening ceremony, April 27, 1938.
Edward MacDowell: a great American tone poet, his life and music.
www.wellesley.edu /Library/test/scores/bio.html   (113 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell Lake Homepage
The Edward MacDowell Dam is just one of the five flood control dams built by the Corps of Engineers in the Merrimack River Basin.
Picnic shelter reservations are being accepted for the 2007 recreation season through the National Recreation Reservation Service (NRRS).
The Edward MacDowell Lake Trail Map is now available online in PDF format.
www.nae.usace.army.mil /recreati/eml/emlhome.htm   (95 words)

  
 Edward MacDowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Wellesley College Library now offers a digital score collection of piano work by American composer Edward MacDowell.
This online collection reproduces the sheet music for the majority of MacDowell's character pieces for piano, most of which are not available in print anthologies of his piano music.
View all Edward MacDowell pieces available in the Wellesley College Library
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