AMY BEACH

BORN AND PASSED AWAY

• She was born in New Hampshire
• She passed away in New York City

THE DATES

• She was born September 5, 1867
• She passed away December 27, 1944

INTERESTING FACTS

• She took piano lessons at the age of 6
• She had been composing simple melodies since 4
• She gave her first public recital at the Boston Music hall
• She spent 1911-14 in Europe after her husband died

ROMANTIC ERA

• In 18th-19th century
• It was calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and...
• Rationality, it also was seen as a..
• Rejection of the precepts of order

HOW SHE WAS UNIQUE

• Her musical setting of favorite poems
• And other pieces

FAMOUS WORKS

• Eilende Wolken (1892)
• Festival Jubilate (1891)
• Sonata in a Minor (1896)

FESTIVAL JUBILATE

• Was for the dedication of the women's building
• At the world's columbian exposition in Chicago 1893

DOES HER MUSIC SOUND LIKE TODAYS MUSIC

• No
• Because her music is slower
• Music now doesn't have a pause in between
• Notes and they don't go very high then very low

MORE FACTS

• Her more than 150 numbered work
• Nearly all of them were published also including
• Choarl works, church music, chamber work and canatas