Frederick Shepherd Converse ( Eng. Frederick Shepherd Converse ; January 5, 1871 , Newton , Massachusetts , USA - June 8, 1940 , , Massachusetts , USA ) is an American composer and teacher. Member of the American Academy of Arts and Literature (1937).
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| Date of Birth | January 5, 1871 |
| Place of Birth | Newton , USA |
| Date of death | June 8, 1940 (69 years old) |
| Place of death | Westwood usa |
| A country |  USA |
| Professions | composer film composer music teacher |
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Biography
Son of Edmund Winchester and Charlotte Augusta (Shepherd) Converse. [1] Graduated from Harvard College , after which he studied composition with John Payne and George Chadwick in Boston and with Carl Berman and Joseph Reinberger at the Royal Academy of Music in Munich . In 1894 he married Emma Tudor. They had seven children. [1] In 1899, he began teaching at the New England Conservatory , from 1901-1907 at Harvard University and from 1921-1938 again at the New England Conservatory (since 1931 - dean). Among the students: Alan Hovaness , and others. The author of the first American opera ( Lolan, or The Wish Tube ), staged in Boston in 1906, and on the Metropolitan Opera in 1910. Also wrote music for films.
Works
- opera Lolan, or the Tube of Desires (1906, Boston)
- opera Sacrifice (1911)
- opera Sinbad the Sailor (1913)
- opera Immigrants (1914)
- Symphony No. 1 (1920)
- Symphony No. 2 (1922)
- Symphony No. 3 (1936)
- Symphony No. 4 (1940)
- symphonic fantasy “The Mysterious Trumpeter” (according to Walt Whitman , 1904)
- The Feast of Pan (1900)
- "The Story of Endymion" (1901)
- two poems for piano and orchestra “Night” and “Day” (1905)
Awards
- ? - Bispem Memorial Medal (opera Lolan, or the Tube of Desires )
Notes
Literature
- Music Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. G. V. Keldysh. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1990. - p. 265 - ISBN 5-85270-033-9
Links
- Frederick Converse on Allmusic
- Frederick Converse on the Internet Movie Database
- Frederick Converse on the KinoPoisk website