Amy Beach
American composer and pianist
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony composed... Wikipedia
Born: September 5, 1867, Henniker, NH
Died: December 27, 1944 (age 77 years), New York, NY
Spouse: Henry Harris Aubrey Beach (m. 1885)
Parents: Charles Abbott Cheney and Clara Imogene Marcy Cheney
Instruments: Piano
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