Arthur H. Bird | |
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| Born | Arthur Homer Bird 23 July 1856 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | 22 December 1923 (aged 67) Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Spouse(s) | Wilhelmine Waldemann (m. 1888) |
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Arthur Homer Bird (23 July 1856 – 22 December 1923) was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied in Europe and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt.[1] He composed a symphonic poem, Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5, and a Symphony in A major, Op. 8 (both in 1886); three orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone; some music for the ballet; a comic opera; and some chamber music; he was also commissioned by the Mason and Hamlin company to write a suite of short pieces for the reed organ.
He married Wilhelmine Waldemann in Peterborough, England in 1888.[1]
Bird died while riding on a train in Berlin in 1923.[2]
References
- ^ a b The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. IX. James T. White & Company. 1907. p. 387. Retrieved 16 November 2020 – via Google Books.
- ^ Lachmund, Carl; Saffle, Michael (1995). Living with Liszt: From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882–1884. Pendragon Press. p. 295. ISBN 9780945193562. Retrieved 16 November 2020 – via Google Books.
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
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