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[1903 ALS by American Composer Horatio Parker, Professor and Dean of the Yale School of Music]
by Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
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About This Item
[New Haven, Connecticut, December 22, 1903]. [2]pp. Sm. 8vo. Yale University, Department of Music letterhead. Contemporary pencil annotation. Fold; very good.
Composer Horatio Parker trained as a pianist and organist, later studying musical composition in Boston and in Munich. In 1893, after teaching and composing in New York, Parker moved to Boston to become became organist and choirmaster at Trinity Church. The following year he was named Battell Professor of the Theory of Music at Yale University and in 1904 he became dean of the Yale School of Music. Prof. Parker writes here to attorney Charles P. Chase concerning payment of a legacy left to him by his uncle. "Under [Parker's] guidance the Yale School of Music grew from a small department into a multifaceted program. He was most vociferous among contemporaneous educators in emphasizing the importance of compositional training at the university level. Among his students were Charles Ives, Seth Bingham, Walter Ruel Cowles, Quincy Porter, Roger Sessions, and David Stanley Smith." (ANB)
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- Bookseller
- Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3731256
- Title
- [1903 ALS by American Composer Horatio Parker, Professor and Dean of the Yale School of Music]
- Author
- Horatio Parker (1863-1919)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
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Our inventory encompasses a broad spectrum of collecting interests, with a special focus on 18th- and 19th-century American history, including African-American history, women's history, and unique or unusual materials documenting the American experience. In our stock, you will also find rare pamphlets, documents, letters and correspondence, journals, diaries, significant archives, as well as original art, graphics, and photographs.
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