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Amy Beach

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

✨AMY BEACH✨

SHE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 5, 1867, AND SHE DIED DECEMBER 27 1944.

✨GAELIC SYMPHONY✨

✨PIANO CONCERTO✨

  • The piano Concerto in C-sharp minor
  • Op. 45, is composition for solo piano.
  • Orchestra in four movements by the American composer Amy Beach.
  • The work was composed between September 1898 and September 1899.
  • link-https://youtu.be/SKYBhHK5Zh4

✨MASS IN E-FLAT✨

  • Link-https://youtu.be/B3FMp3OHDOE
  • The mass in e flat, op. 5, is a choral work by American composer Amy beach.
  • It was the first mass written by an American woman.
  • Amy Beach’s first acclimated composition.
  • The mass in e flat is a 75-minute work for chorus, quartet, organ, and orchestra.

✨CHILDHOOD✨

  • Amy was a true prodigy who memorized forty songs at the age of one.
  • She taught herself to read at the age of three.
  • She played four part hymns and composed simple waltzes at the age of four.

✨PARENTS✨

  • Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney-mom
  • Charles Abbott Cheney-dad

✨HUSBAND✨

  • Her husband was Henry Harris.
  • Her husband requested that she limit her public performance.

✨MORE ABOUT HER CHILDHOOD✨

  • By the age of six, she began studying piano with her mother.
  • She performed her first public recitals.

✨FIVE OF HER SONGS✨

✨MORE FACTS ABOUT HER✨

  • In 1892, beach achieved her first notable success as a composer with the performance of her mass in E-flat by Boston’s Handel.

✨WHEN SHE DIED✨

  • She died in 1944 dec 27.
  • She was a founding member and First president of the society of American women composers.
  • Following her death on dec 27, 1944.
  • Beach’s Royalties were given to 5he MacDowell colony.
  • As prescribed in her will.

✨SCHOOLING✨

  • Amy in a European conservatory, but opted instead for local training, hiring Ernst Perabo and later Carl Baermann w.
Photo by bantersnaps

✨WEBSITES USED✨

  • Wikipedia
  • YouTube
  • Library of Congress