THE FOREIGN COMPOSERS.
Ours is so young, and so cosmopolite, a country, that our art shows
the same brevity of lineage as our society. Immigration has played a
large part in the musical life of the United States, as it has in the
make-up of the population; and yet for all the multiplexity of his
ancestry, the American citizen has been assimilated into a distinctive
individuality that has all the traits of his different forbears, and
is yet not closely like any of them. So, American music, taking its
scale and most of its forms from the old country, is yet developing an
integrity that the future will make much of. As with the federation of
the States, so will one great music ascend polyphonically,--_e
pluribus unum_.
In compiling this directory of American composers, it has been
necessary to discuss the works only of the composers who were born in
this country. It is interesting to see how few of these names are
un-American, how few of them are Germanic (though so many of them have
studied in Germany). Comment has often been made upon the Teutonic
nature of the make-up of our orchestras. It is pleasant to find that a
very respectable list of composers can be made up without a
preponderance of German names.
The music life of our country, however, has been so strongly
influenced and enlivened and corrected by the presence of men who were
born abroad that some recognition of their importance should somewhere
be found. Many of them have become naturalized and have brought with
them so much enthusiasm for our institutions that they are actually
more American than many of the Americans; than those, particularly,
who, having had a little study abroad, have gone quite mad upon the
superstition of "atmosphere," and have brought home nothing but
foreign mannerisms and discontent.
Among the foreign born who have made their home in America, I must
mention with respect, and without attempting to suggest order of
precedence, the following names:
C.M. Loeffler, Bruno Oscar Klein, Leopold Godowski, Victor Herbert,
Walter Damrosch, Julius Eichberg, Dr. Hugh A. Clarke, Louis V. Saar,
Asgar Hamerik, Otto Singer, August Hyllested, Xavier Scharwenka,
Rafael Joseffy, Constantin von Sternberg, Adolph Koelling, August
Spanuth, Aime Lachaume, Max Vogrich, W.C. Seeboeck, Julian Edwards,
Robert Coverley, William Furst, Gustave Kerker, Henry Waller, P.A.
Schnecker, Clement R. Gale, Edmund Severn, Platon Brounoff, Richard
Burmeister, Augusto Rotoli, Emil Liebling, Carl Busch, John Orth,
Ernst Perabo, Ferdinand Dunkley, Mrs. Clara Kathleen Rogers, Miss
Adele Lewing, Mrs. Elisa Mazzucato Young.
It is perhaps quibbling to rule out some of these names from
Americanism, and include certain of those whom I have counted American
because they were born here, in spite of the fact that their whole
tuition and tendency is alien. But the line must be drawn somewhere.
The problem is still more trying in the case of certain composers who,
having been born here, have expatriated themselves, and joined that
small colony of notables whom America has given to Europe as a first
instalment in payment of the numerous loans we have borrowed from the
old country.
For the sake of formally acknowledging this debt, I will not endeavor
to discuss here the careers of George Templeton Strong, Arthur Bird,
or O.B. Boise, all three of whom were born in this country, but have
elected to live in Berlin. Their distinction in that city at least
palely reflects some credit upon the country that gave them birth.
POSTLUDE.
In the ninth century Iceland was the musical center of the world;
students went there from all Europe as to an artistic Mecca. Iceland
has long lost her musical crown. And Welsh music in its turn has
ceased to be the chief on earth. Russia is sending up a strong and
growing harmony marred with much discord. Some visionaries look to her
for the new song. But I do not hesitate to match against the serfs of
the steppes the high-hearted, electric-minded free people of our
prairies; and to prophesy that in the coming century the musical
supremacy and inspiration of the world will rest here overseas, in
America.
THE END.
INDEX.
[Transcriber's Note: Misspellings in the original Index have been
corrected, and the entries have been placed in the proper order.]
Abt Society, 198.
Academy of Dramatic Arts, 79.
AEschylean Chorus, 53.
Agramonte, Emilio, 41.
Aldrich, Anna Reeve, 313.
Aldrich, T.B., 89, 108, 204.
Allen, C.N., 244.
Allen, N.H., 273.
Allen, P.C., 272.
Allison, XIII.
Ambrosius, Johanna, 349.
Americanism in Music, 12, 33, 58.
Apollo Club, 168, 236, 331.
Apthorp, W.F., 370.
Arion Society, 190.
Arnold, Maurice, 135, 139.
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 171.
Aus der Ohe, Adele, 293.
Bach, J.S., 15, 225, 227, 248, 399, 400.
Baltzell, Willard J., 275.
Bartlett, H.N., 317, 327.
Bassett, F., 415.
Bates, Arlo, 187, 368.
Baumgras, Irene, 439.
Beach, Mrs. H.H.A., 426, 432, 433.
Beck, Johann H., 406, 411.
Beethoven, 12, 52, 56, 100, 116, 148, 163, 178, 208, 306.
Bendel, 237.
"Ben Hur," 72.
Benkert, G.F., 119.
Bennett, Sterndale, 257.
Berlioz, 144, 219, 243, 307, 426.
Bernard of Cluny's, 183.
Best, W.T., 361.
Bird, Arthur, 446.
Black, Jennie Prince, 441.
"Blind Tom," 59.
Boccherini, 407.
Bodenstedt, 364.
Boise, O.B., 292, 299, 388, 446.
Boston Colony, 269, 350, 371.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 18, 219, 233, 269, 281, 282, 286, 292, 432.
Bourdillon's, 109, 312.
Brahms, 56, 97, 114, 255, 284.
Breton, XIII.
Brewer, J.H., 331, 334.
Bristow, George F., 246.
Brockway, Howard, 298, 304.
Brounoff, Platon, 445.
Browning, E.B., 424.
Browning, Robt., 89, 99.
Bruce, Edwin, 388.
Bruch, Max, 136.
Bruckner, 419.
Bruneau, Alfred, 418.
Buck, Dudley, 165, 173, 174, 305, 324, 331, 361, 381, 392.
Bullard, F.F., 351, 357.
Burmeister, Richard, 445.
Burns, 204.
Burton, F.R., 273.
Busch, Carl, 445.
Byrd, XIII.
Byron, 252.
Canova, 12.
Carew, XIII.
Carnegie, A., 256.
Carpenter, H.B., 213.
Carreno, 36.
Carroll, Lewis, 212.
Carter, R.I., 294.
Chadwick, Geo. W., 18, 175, 210, 220, 244, 347, 358.
Chaminade, 218.
Champion, T., XIII., 415.
Cheney, J.V., 89, 90.
Chicago Colony, 18.
Chicago Orchestra, 18.
Chinese Music, 64, 86, 140, 143.
Chopin, 52, 56, 90, 98, 100, 110, 116, 138, 163, 177, 178, 211, 250,
294, 317, 319, 338, 396, 421.
Cincinnati Colony, 191, 270, 272.
Clarke, H.A., 198, 444.
Clementi, 113.
Cleveland Colony, 394, 415.
Coccius, 132, 249.
Coerne, L.A., 262, 265.
Coleridge, 62, 309.
College Music, 20, 38.
Collins, Laura S., 441.
Columbus, 234.
Converse, C.C., 256, 261.
Coombs, C.W., 343.
Corelli, 15.
Couperin, 16.
Coverley, Robert, 444.
Cramer, 321.
Crane, Charlotte M., 441.
Crane, Stephen, 415, 418.
Dachs, 419.
Damrosch, Walter, 261, 444.
Dante, 229.
De Koven, R., 334.
De Musset, A., 109.
Dennee, Charles, 374.
Dickinson, Emily, 369, 418, 424.
Diemer, 134.
Donne, Jno., XIII.
Dowland, XIII.
Draessecke, 343.
Drake, Rodman, 131, 168.
Drayton, XIII.
Dreams and Music, 62.
Dressler, L.R., 345.
Drummond, XIII., 153.
Dubois, 134, 358.
Dudley, Governor, 166.
Dunbar, P.L., 206.
Dunkley, Ferdinand, 445.
Dvorak, A., 22, 77, 128, 129, 131, 132, 136, 278, 279, 305, 349, 371.
Eddy, Clarence, 59, 348.
Edison, 16.
Edwards, Julian, 444.
Egyptian Music, 72.
Ehlert, 37.
Ehling, Victor, 419.
Ehrlich, 412.
Eichberg, Julius, 444.
Elson, L.C., 16.
Emerson, 14.
Emery, Stephen A., 17, 95, 175, 244, 358, 375.
English Music, 12, 248, 329.
Esputa, John, 119.
Fairlamb, J.R., 344.
Farwell, A., 348.
Feval, 79.
Field, John, 227.
Finck, Henry T., 54.
Fisher, W.A., 348, 371.
Fissot, 412.
Fletcher, XII., 150.
Florio, 31.
Foerster, A.M., 248, 256.
Folk-music, 22.
Foote, Arthur, 18, 224, 234.
Ford, XIII.
Franz, Robt., 101, 104, 106, 173, 203, 248.
French influence, 29, 36, 357.
Fuchs, Robt., 419.
Furst, Wm., 444.
Gale, Clement R., 445.
Gale, Norman, 88.
Gavaert, 426.
Gaynor, Mrs. Jessie L., 441.
Genee, 335.
German Influence, etc., 17, 40, 49, 59, 119, 132, 260.
Gerok, 106.
Gilchrist, W.W., 196, 209.
Gilder, R.W., 277.
Gilmore, P.S., 124, 261.
Gleason, F.G., 348, 376, 382.
Godard, 358.
Godowski, L., 444.
Goethe, 43, 95, 255.
Goetschius, Percy, 388.
Goldmark, Carl, 279, 281.
Goldmark, Rubin, 278, 282.
Goodrich, A.J., 28, 130, 171, 199, 380, 388, 391.
Goodrich, J. Wallace, 348.
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 17, 301, 422.
Gounod, 321.
Grabau, 371.
Grand Operas, 152, 262.
Gray, XII.
Greek Music, 72, 73, 155.
Greene, XII.
Grieg, 39, 54, 134, 190, 281, 396.
Grill, 132, 249.
Guilbert, Yvette, 129.
Guilmant, 358, 412.
Guyon, 322.
Hadley, H.K., 241, 247.
Haggard, Rider, 214.
Hale, F.W., 358.
Hale, Mrs. Philip, 439.
Hale, Philip, 186, 288, 439.
Halir, Carl, 432.
Hall, Bishop, XIII.
Hamerik, A., 444.
Hammond, Dr. Wm. A., 62.
Haendel, 15, 152, 162, 184, 246, 432.
Haendel and Haydn Society, 374, 428.
Hanscom, E.W., 275.
Hanslick, 129.
Harris, Victor, 336.
Harvard University, 154, 222.
Hastings, F.S., 344.
Haupt, 151, 257, 311, 412.
Hauptmann, 167, 257, 347.
Hawley, C.B., 32.
Haydn, 403, 407.
Heindl, H., 244.
Heine, 44, 88, 104, 105, 196, 215, 247, 309, 364, 413.
Heller, 164, 350.
Hemans, 202.
Henderson, W.J., 185.
Henley, W.E., 431.
Henselt, 104.
Herbert, XIII.
Herbert, Victor, 444.
Herford, Oliver, 369.
Herrick, XIII., 87, 179, 228, 369, 407, 413.
Heyman, 37.
Hieber, 263.
Hiler, E.O., 375.
Hood, Helen, 441.
Homer, Sidney, 375.
Hopkins, H.P., 349.
Hopper, 126.
Horace, 430.
Hovey, Richard, 110, 351.
Howe, Mrs. J.W., 424.
Humorous Music, 25, 64, 212, 433.
Humperdinck, 348.
Huneker, James, 39, 52, 54, 281.
Huss, H.H., 291, 297, 351.
Hyllested, August, 444.
Iceland, 447.
Indian Music, 22, 48, 49.
Irving, 170.
Jacobsen, O.F., 322.
Jadassohn, 211, 271.
Japanese Music, 139, 142.
Jensen, G., 136, 350.
Joachim, 97.
John, 343.
Johns, Clayton, 368, 370.
Jonson, XII., 57, 88.
Jordan, Jules, 274.
Joseffy, 71, 278, 444.
Kaltenborn, Franz, 19, 279, 295.
Keats, 152, 296.
Kelley, Edgar S., 27, 57, 76, 140, 272.
Kerker, Gustave, 444.
Kiel, 237, 371, 396.
Kieserling, R., Jr., 270.
Kipling, 50, 206, 359.
Klein, B.O., 444.
Klindworth, Karl, 95, 96, 97, 111.
Kneisel, Franz, 263, 286, 432.
Koelling, Adolph, 444.
Korn, Mrs. Clara A., 441.
Kortheuer, H.O.C., 299.
Kotzschmar, 150.
Krehbiel, H.E., 273, 361.
Kroeger, E.R., 420, 422.
Kruger, 59.
Kullak, 342, 387.
Lachaume, Amie, 444.
Lachmund, C.V., 349.
Lang, B.J., 95, 212, 226, 375, 432.
Lang, M.R., 424, 432, 438.
Lanier, S., 169, 171, 173.
Lassen, Edward, 132, 190.
Lassus, 15.
Lawes, Harry, 153, 248, 328.
Leading Motives, 80.
Ledochowski, 59.
Lewing, Adele, 445.
Liebling, Emil, 445.
Liszt, 37, 59, 97, 190, 196, 237, 341, 387.
Lodge, XIII.
Loeffler, C.M., 444.
Longfellow, 81, 223, 224.
Loomis, C.B., 84.
Loomis, H.W., 27, 77, 91.
Loretz, J.M., 344.
Loeschorn, 411.
Lowell, 201.
Lulli, 16.
Lyly, XIII.
MacDowell, E.A., 18, 23, 34, 57.
Macmonnies, 242.
Mandyczewski, 244.
Manney, C.F., 348.
Manuscript Societies, 20.
March-tunes, 112.
Marlowe, XII.
Marmontel, 37.
Marston, G.W., 358, 364, 368.
Marteau, Henri, 134.
Martin, E.S., 30.
Marx, A.B., 389.
Mason, Dr. Wm., 340, 341, 387.
Mason, Lowell, 17, 157, 340.
Maud, Constance, 441.
McCagg Prize, 176.
McCaull, 126.
McLellan, C.M.S., 63.
Mendelssohn, 59, 155, 157, 184.
Mendelssohn Club, 209.
Mendelssohn, Fanny, 425.
Mendelssohn Glee Club, 199, 200, 325.
Meyerbeer, 126.
Miles, General, 116.
Millard, H., 337.
Miller, C.C., 392.
Millet, 313.
Mills, S.B., 321.
Milton, 152, 328.
Montaigne, 31.
Monteverde, 16.
Moody and Sankey, 157.
Morgan, John P., 371.
Morgan, Matt., 120.
Moscheles, 167, 311, 347, 381.
Mosenthal, J., 324.
Moskowski, 396, 439.
Mozart, 116, 306, 395.
Namby-pamby, 25.
National Airs, 259.
Negro Music, 22, 23, 48, 122, 128, 131, 137.
Neidlinger, W.H., 391, 394.
Neitzel, 136.
Nevin, Arthur, 342.
Nevin, Ethelbert, 92, 111.
Nevin, R.P., 94.
New York Colony, 269, 282, 350.
Nicode, 129.
Nobles, M., 120.
Norris, Homer A., 29, 348, 357, 358, 388.
Northeastern Saeengerbund, 191.
Offenbach, 120.
Omar, 338.
Orientalism, 45.
Orth, John, 175, 445.
Oxenford, John, 329.
Page, N.C., 139, 143, 272.
Paine, John Knowles, 18, 162, 226, 263, 370.
Palestrina, 16, 284.
Pantomime Music, 79, 110.
Papperitz, 132, 249.
Parker, H.W., 174, 188, 192, 371, 347.
Parker, J.C.D., 373.
Parker, Mrs. E.G., 183.
Parrot, John, 60.
Pasmore, H.B., 272.
Pendleton, C, 345.
Penfield, S.M., 347.
Perabo, Ernst, 445.
Peri, 15.
Perosi, 284.
Perugino, 12.
Philadelphia, 197.
Pierne, 134.
Plaidy, 167, 257, 381.
Poe, 14, 76.
Porpora, 15.
Pratt, S.G., 234, 240, 347.
Proctor, A.A., 81.
Program Music, 41, 44.
Prout, E., 389.
Pugno, 134.
Purcell, 14, 248.
Puritan Influence, 14, 15.
Radeck, 361.
Raff, 37, 41, 97, 147.
Raif, O., 381, 396, 439.
Ralegh, XIII.
Rameau, 16.
Rankin, McKee, 60.
Raphael, 12.
Reinecke, 132, 211, 271, 347.
"Rene Victor," 439.
Rheinberger, J., 211, 292, 355.
Richter, E.F., 167, 249, 257, 342, 381, 387.
Rietz, 167.
Rive-King, Julie, 441.
Robyn, A.G., 419.
Robyn, Wm., 419.
Rogers, J.H., 411, 414.
Rogers, Mrs. C.K., 445.
Rohde, 311, 412.
Rossini, 183.
Rotoli, Augusto, 445.
Rubinstein, 77, 129.
Rueckert, 193.
Rummel, Franz, 371.
Runciman, John F., 14.
Russell, L.A., 144.
Russian music, 57, 447.
Rutenber, 324.
Saar, L.V., 444.
Saint-Saens, 108.
San Francisco, 59, 272, 371.
Sappho, 424.
Savard, 37.
Sawyer, H.P., 441.
Scarlattis, 15.
Scharwenka, X., 396, 444.
Schiller, 95.
Schimon, 249.
Schnecker, P.A., 445.
Schoenefeld, 128, 135.
Schubert, 103, 261, 350.
Schumann, VII., 56, 88, 91, 98, 101, 104, 106, 163, 173, 177, 215, 397.
Schuyler, Wm., 415, 419.
Scotch influence, 38, 39, 61, 196.
Scott, 12, 171.
Seeboeck, W.C., 444.
Seidl, A., 236, 245, 261, 279, 322, 349, 422.
Seiffritz, 59, 343.
Seiss, 350.
Severn, E., 445.
Shakespeare,. XII., 31, 57, 60, 87, 95, 150, 152, 173, 228, 239, 297.
Sharp, Wm., 81.
Shelley, 351.
Shelley, H.R., 304, 308.
Sherwood, Wm. H., 19, 60, 286, 311, 370, 383, 387.
Shirley, XIII.
Sidney, XIII., 228.
Siloti, A., 192.
Singer, Otto, 396, 444.
Sitt, H., 192.
Smith, G., 309, 319.
Smith, Wilson G., 395, 406.
Sommer, Charles, 414.
Sonatas, 51, 56, 84.
Sophokles, 154, 161.
Sousa, John P., 112, 128.
Spanish influence, 119.
Spanuth, A., 444.
Speidel, 59, 343.
Spencer, Fanny M., 441.
Spenser, XIII.
Spohr, 257.
Stair, Patty, 414, 441.
Stedman, E.C., 171, 277, 373.
Sternberg, Constantin von, 444.
Stevenson, R.L., 12, 105.
St. Louis Colony, 270, 415, 422.
Stoeckel, G.J., 305.
Strauss, J., 114.
Strauss, R., 407.
Strong, G.T., 445.
Suckling, 228.
Swinburne, 383.
Symphonies, 64, 147, 218, 298.
Taft, F., 347.
Tartini, 15, 62.
Taussig, 342, 381.
Tennyson, 42, 55, 328.
Theokritos, 384.
Theorists, 28, 388.
Thomas, Theodore, 18, 151, 153, 168, 169, 257, 261, 264, 349, 376, 380,
432.
Tschaikowski, 232, 372, 391.
Tufts, John W., 366.
Upton, Geo. P., 152, 380.
Urban, 135.
Van der Stucken, Frank, 19, 188, 196, 292.
Vergil, 229.
Verlaine, 81.
Vieh, G.C., 419.
Vierling, 135.
Vogrich, Max, 444.
Von Boehme, 94.
Von Buelow, H., 96.
Wagner, 50, 56, 99, 111, 114, 125, 157, 162, 201, 207, 223, 237.
Wagner, Frau Cosima, 97.
Waller, Henry, 444.
Warren, G.W., 324, 346.
Warren, R.H., 345, 347.
Warren, S.P., 311.
Weatherby, F.E., 329.
Weitzmann, 381, 387.
Welsh Music, 447.
Wheeler, A.C., 320.
Whelpley, B.L., 375.
Whiting, 283, 291.
Whiting, G.E., 360.
Whitman, Walt, 14, 418.
Whittier, 153.
Widor, 412.
Wiegand, Emil, 270.
Wieprecht, 151.
Willaert, 15.
Wither, XIII.
Women as Composers, 423, 441.
Wood, Mrs. M.K., 440.
Woodberry, G.E., 161.
Wotton, XIII.
Wuellner, 136.
Yale University, 175.
Young, Mrs. E.M., 445.
Zeck, F., Jr., 272.
Zeno, 12.
Zola, 418.
End of Project Gutenberg's Contemporary American Composers, by Rupert Hughes