12 etudes for the development of technique and style in piano playing : op. 39
Étude · Op. 39
Edward MacDowell 1860–1908
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Op. 39
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Technique and style together·Twelve concert studies·Contains Alla Tarantella·Teaching purpose
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- Op. 39
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- Étude
About the piece
Twelve studies whose full title states MacDowell's intention plainly: technique and style are to be developed together rather than in sequence.
He was a serious teacher as well as a composer, appointed the first professor of music at Columbia University in 1896, and he resigned in 1904 after a public dispute with the university's president over the place of the arts in the curriculum.
The composer
Edward MacDowell
1860–1908
Edward Alexander MacDowell was an American composer and pianist of the late Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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