Category: Amy Beach
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Amy Beach’s “Gaelic Symphony” Debuts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the First Significant Work by an American Female Composer to Receive “public and journalistic acclaim.” October 30, 1896.
Image: American composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867-1944) (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 30, 1896, Amy Beach’s “Gaelic Symphony” debuts by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the first significant work by an American female composer to receive “public and journalistic acclaim.” She was the first American composer to triumph without the advantage of…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 