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Download e-book for iPad: Johanna Beyer (American Composers) by Amy C. Beal

By Amy C. Beal

ISBN-10: 0252039157

ISBN-13: 9780252039157

ISBN-10: 0252080726

ISBN-13: 9780252080722

Composer Johanna Beyer's interesting physique of track and enigmatic lifestyles tale represent a tremendous bankruptcy in American song background. As a hard-working German émigré piano instructor and accompanist dwelling in and round long island urban throughout the New Deal period, she composed ample tune for piano, percussion ensemble, chamber teams, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time pupil of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer used to be an ultramodernist, and an lively member of a group that incorporated now-better-known composers and musicians. just one of her works used to be released and just one recorded in the course of her lifetime. yet modern musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued by way of her originality.

 

Amy C. Beal chronicles Beyer's existence from her early participation in New York's modern song scene via her performances on the Federal track Project's Composers' Forum-Laboratory live shows to her unlucky early demise in 1944. This e-book is a portrait of a passionate and inventive lady underestimated by way of her song group while she tirelessly utilized her presents with compositional rigor.

 

The first book-length research of the composer's existence and song, Johanna Beyer reclaims a uniquely leading edge artist and physique of labor for a brand new generation.

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