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Johanna Beyer (Hardcover)
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Johanna Beyer (Hardcover)
Series: American Composers
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Composer Johanna Beyer's fascinating body of music and enigmatic
life story constitute an important chapter in American music
history. As a hard-working German emigre piano teacher and
accompanist living in and around New York City during the New Deal
era, she composed plentiful music for piano, percussion ensemble,
chamber groups, choir, band, and orchestra. A one-time student of
Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell, Beyer was an
ultramodernist, and an active member of a community that included
now-better-known composers and musicians. Only one of her works was
published and only one recorded during her lifetime. But
contemporary musicians who play Beyer's compositions are intrigued
by her originality. Amy C. Beal chronicles Beyer's life from her
early participation in New York's contemporary music scene through
her performances at the Federal Music Project's Composers'
Forum-Laboratory concerts to her unfortunate early death in 1944.
This book is a portrait of a passionate and creative woman
underestimated by her music community even as she tirelessly
applied her gifts with compositional rigor. The first book-length
study of the composer's life and music, Johanna Beyer reclaims a
uniquely innovative artist and body of work for a new generation.
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