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    Compositions Compositions: Gaelic Symphony Gaelic Symphony

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    Amy Beach was an American composer born in 1867 who was a child prodigy in music. She composed her first symphony, called the Gaelic Symphony, in 1894, making her the first female American composer to compose and publish a symphony. She composed over 150 works throughout her career, nearly all of which were published, which was remarkable for a female composer during a time when women faced marginalization. Her compositions included choral works, church music, chamber works, cantatas, and songs set to texts by Shakespeare, Burns, and Browning. She composed under the initials H.H.A. Beach to hide her gender.

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    Amy Beach was an American composer born in 1867 who was a child prodigy in music. She composed her first symphony, called the Gaelic Symphony, in 1894, making her the first female American composer to compose and publish a symphony. She composed over 150 works throughout her career, nearly all of which were published, which was remarkable for a female composer during a time when women faced marginalization. Her compositions included choral works, church music, chamber works, cantatas, and songs set to texts by Shakespeare, Burns, and Browning. She composed under the initials H.H.A. Beach to hide her gender.

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    Amy Beach was an American composer born in 1867 who was a child prodigy in music. She composed her first symphony, called the Gaelic Symphony, in 1894, making her the first female American composer to compose and publish a symphony. She composed over 150 works throughout her career, nearly all of which were published, which was remarkable for a female composer during a time when women faced marginalization. Her compositions included choral works, church music, chamber works, cantatas, and songs set to texts by Shakespeare, Burns, and Browning. She composed under the initials H.H.A. Beach to hide her gender.

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    Compositions Compositions: Gaelic Symphony Gaelic Symphony

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    Amy Beach was an American composer born in 1867 who was a child prodigy in music. She composed her first symphony, called the Gaelic Symphony, in 1894, making her the first female American composer to compose and publish a symphony. She composed over 150 works throughout her career, nearly all of which were published, which was remarkable for a female composer during a time when women faced marginalization. Her compositions included choral works, church music, chamber works, cantatas, and songs set to texts by Shakespeare, Burns, and Browning. She composed under the initials H.H.A. Beach to hide her gender.

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    Compositions

    Amy
    Manuscript Score of "Hermit Thrush at Morn,"
    Opus 92, No. 2, 1922

    Gaelic Symphony • This was first symphony


    composed and published by a female American
    composer it consists of four contrasting movements
    and lasts for 35 to 40 minutes
    Timeline
    Age 4 • She started to compose
    melodies

    Beach Age 8 • She began taking piano


    lessons

    Age 16 • She performed her first


    public recital at Boston Music Hall
    Introduction
    Introduction
    Amy Marcy Beach was an American pianist and
    composer born on the 5th September, 1867 in New
    Hampshire. Her family moved to Boston when she was
    three years old.
    By that time, she was a child prodigy and could sing 40
    songs and taught herself how to read by
    Her works include She hid her gender under the label
    H.H.A. Beach. Her works included choral works,
    She was the best female composer in the United States.
    church music, chamber works, cantatas, and
    She made more than 150 numbered works, nearly all
    songs to words of Shakespeare, Robert Burns,
    were published,
    this is surprising because she was a woman in a time and Robert Browning.
    where women were marginalised.
    She got married in December of that
    year to Henry H.A. Beach, a Harvard
    University professor and musician. He
    incited her to focus on composition.

    February 1892 • The Boston


    1910 • Her Husband died and she Symphony and the Handel and Haydn
    moves to Europe for the next 4 years Society performed her Mass in E-flat .
    where her works were widely The first piece made by a woman
    acclaimed. played in both organisations

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