Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860January 23, 1908) 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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.
Studies
Edward MacDowell was born in
New York City to Thomas MacDowell, a Manhattan milk dealer, and Frances “Fanny” Mary Knapp.
[Robin Rausch (Music Specialist at the Library of Congress)]
MacDowell by E. Douglas Bomberger (review)
''Notes'', Volume 71, Number 2, December 2014, pp. 280-283. DOI: 10.1353/not.2014.0150[Alan Levy]
''American National Biography Online''. February 2000. Retrieved December 18, 2015. He received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a
Colombian
violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time. He also received music lessons from friends of Buitrago, including the
Cuban pianist Pablo Desverine and
Venezuelan pianist and composer
Teresa Carreño.
MacDowell's mother decided to take her son to Paris, France, where in 1877 he was admitted to the
Paris Conservatory
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after receiving a competitive scholarship for international students.
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After two years of studies under
Antoine François Marmontel
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and being at the top of his class, he continued his education at
Dr. Hoch's Conservatory in
Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied piano with
Carl Heymann and composition with
Joachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.
Biography
Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitm ...
. When
Franz Liszt and
Clara Schumann
Clara Josephine Schumann (; née Wieck; 13 September 1819 – 20 May 1896) was a German pianist, composer, and piano teacher. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence over the course of a ...
visited the conservatory in early 1880 and attended a recital of student compositions, MacDowell performed Robert Schumann's Quintet, Op. 44 along with a transcription of a Liszt
symphonic poem. Next year, he paid a visit to Liszt in
Weimar and performed some of his own compositions. Liszt recommended MacDowell's First Modern Suite, Op. 10 to
Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein for performance and also introduced him to Leipzig music publishers at
Breitkopf & Härtel
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The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
.
After finishing his studies in 1881, MacDowell remained for a while in Germany, where he composed, performed on stage and gave piano lessons.
He taught piano in
Darmstadt during 1881–1884, including at the ' (now known as the '), and in
Wiesbaden, 1884–1888.
[ ''The Biographical Dictionary of America,'' vol. 7, p. 147.]
Marriage and family
In 1884, MacDowell married
Marian Griswold Nevins, an American who had been one of his piano students in Frankfurt for three years. About the time that MacDowell composed a piano piece titled ''Cradle Song'', Marian suffered an illness that resulted in her being unable to bear children.
Career
In Germany, the MacDowells settled first in Frankfurt, then in
Darmstadt, and finally, in
Wiesbaden. From 1885 to 1888 MacDowell devoted himself almost exclusively to composition. That brought financial difficulties, and he decided to return to the United States in the autumn of 1888. He made
Boston
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his new home, where he became well known as a concert pianist and piano teacher. He performed in
recitals with the
Boston Symphony Orchestra
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and other American musical organizations.
The MacDowells lived in Boston until 1896, when Edward was appointed professor of music at
Columbia University, the first music professor in the university's history. He was personally invited to Columbia University by its president
Seth Low to create a music department.
He stayed at Columbia until 1904. In addition to composing and teaching, from 1896 to 1898 he directed the
Mendelssohn Glee Club. MacDowell composed some music for the group to perform.
In 1896, Marian MacDowell purchased Hillcrest Farm, to serve as their summer residence in
Peterborough, New Hampshire. MacDowell found his creativity flourished in the beautiful rural setting. His compositions included two piano concertos, two orchestral suites, four symphonic poems, four
piano sonatas, piano
suite
Suite may refer to:
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*Suite (music), a set of musical pieces considered as one composition
** Suite (Bach), a list of suites composed by J. S. Bach
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** ''Suite ...
s, and songs. He also published dozens of piano
transcriptions of mostly 18th century pre-piano keyboard pieces.
From 1896 to 1898, MacDowell also published 13 piano pieces and 4
part song
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s under the pseudonym of Edgar Thorn. These compositions were not mentioned in Lawrence Gilman's 1909 biography of MacDowell. They were listed without
opus numbers in MacDowell's ''Critical and Historical Essays'' (1912) and in John F. Porte's ''Edward MacDowell'' (1922). They were listed with opus numbers in Oscar Sonneck's ''Catalogue of First Editions of Edward MacDowell'' (1917).
MacDowell was also a noted teacher of the piano and music composition. His students included
E. Ray Goetz,
Frances Tarbox and
John Pierce Langs, a student from
Buffalo, New York
Buffalo is the second-largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind only New York City) and the seat of Erie County. It is at the eastern end of Lake Erie, at the head of the Niagara River, and is across the Canadian border from Southe ...
, with whom he became very close friends. Langs was also close to noted Canadian pianist
Harold Bradley, and both championed MacDowell's piano compositions. The linguist
Edward Sapir
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Sap ...
was also among his students.
MacDowell was often stressed in his position at Columbia University, due to both administrative duties and growing conflict with the new university president
Nicholas Murray Butler
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around a proposed two-course requirement in fine arts for all undergraduate students, as well as creation of combined Department of Fine Arts overseeing music, sculpture, painting and comparative literature. After Butler stripped the academic affairs voting rights of Columbia faculty members in the arts and accused MacDowell of unprofessional conduct and sloppy teaching, in February 1904, MacDowell abruptly announced his resignation, raising an unfortunate public controversy.
After stepping down from Columbia professorship, MacDowell fell into depression and his health rapidly deteriorated. E. Douglas Bomberger's biography notes that MacDowell suffered from
seasonal affective disorder
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a mood disorder subset, in which people who have normal mental health throughout most of the year exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year.
Common symptoms include sleeping too much, having l ...
throughout his life, and often made decisions with negative implications in the darkest months of the year. Bomberger advances a new theory for the sudden decline of MacDowell's health:
bromide poisoning, which was sometimes mistaken for
paresis
In medicine, paresis () is a condition typified by a weakness of voluntary movement, or by partial loss of voluntary movement or by impaired movement. When used without qualifiers, it usually refers to the limbs, but it can also be used to desc ...
at the time, as was the case with MacDowell's death certificate.
Indeed, MacDowell had long suffered from insomnia, and potassium bromide or sodium bromide were the standard treatment for that condition, and in fact were used in many common remedies of the day. MacDowell also was in contact with bromides through his avid hobby of photography.
[Bomberger, E. Douglas: ''MacDowell'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); .]
A 1904 accident in which MacDowell was run over by a
Hansom cab on Broadway may have contributed to his growing psychiatric disorder and resulting dementia. Of his final years, Lawrence Gilman, a contemporary, described: "His mind became as that of a little child. He sat quietly, day after day, in a chair by a window, smiling patiently from time to time at those about him, turning the pages of a book of fairy tales that seemed to give him a definite pleasure, and greeting with a fugitive gleam of recognition certain of his more intimate friends."
The
Mendelssohn Glee Club raised money to help the MacDowells. Friends launched a public appeal to raise funds for his care; among the signers were
Horatio Parker,
Victor Herbert,
Arthur Foote
Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the " Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward M ...
,
George Whitefield Chadwick,
Frederick Converse,
Andrew Carnegie
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,
J. P. Morgan, New York Mayor
Seth Low, and former President
Grover Cleveland.
Marian MacDowell cared for her husband to the end of his life. In 1907, the composer and his wife founded
MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop) (formerly known as The MacDowell Colony) by deeding the Hillcrest Farm to the newly established Edward MacDowell Association. MacDowell died in 1908 in
New York City and was buried at his beloved Hillcrest Farm.
Legacy and honors
In 1896,
Princeton University awarded MacDowell an honorary degree of Doctor of Music. In 1899, he was elected as the president of the Society of American Musicians and Composers (New York).
In 1904, he became one of the first seven people chosen for membership in the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
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. After this experience, the MacDowells envisioned establishing a residency for artists near their summer home in
Peterborough, New Hampshire.
The
MacDowell (artists' residency and workshop), a multidisciplinary artists' retreat, continued to honor the composer's memory after his death by supporting the work of other artists in an interdisciplinary environment. With time, it created an important part of MacDowell's legacy. Marian MacDowell led the Edward MacDowell Association and Colony for more than 25 years, strengthening its initial endowment by resuming her piano performances and creating a wide circle of donors, especially among women's clubs and musical sororities and around 400
MacDowell music clubs. The Edward MacDowell Association backed many American composers, including
Aaron Copland
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,
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*Edgard, Louisiana
* Edgard Félix Pierre Jacobs
*Edgard Varèse
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,
Roger Sessions,
William Schuman
William Howard Schuman (August 4, 1910February 15, 1992) was an American composer and arts administrator.
Life
Schuman was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, son of Samuel and Rachel Schuman. He was named after the 27th U.S ...
,
Walter Piston,
Samuel Barber,
Elliott Carter
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. (December 11, 1908 – November 5, 2012) was an American modernist composer. One of the most respected composers of the second half of the 20th century, he combined elements of European modernism and American "ultra- ...
, and
Leonard Bernstein, in the beginning phases of their careers by awarding them residencies, fellowships, and the
Edward MacDowell Medal. Between 1925 and 1956, Copland received a fellowship eight times; in 1961 he was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal, and he served himself for 34 years on the board of Association and Colony.
Amy Beach
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Her "Gaelic" Symphony, premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in ...
was at MacDowell on fellowships from its beginning for many summers while she was in her middle to later career.
After his death, MacDowell was considered as a great, internationally known American composer. In 1940, MacDowell was one of five American composers honored in a series of United States postage stamps. The other four composers were
Stephen Foster,
John Philip Sousa,
Victor Herbert, and
Ethelbert Nevin
Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (November 25, 1862February 17, 1901) was an American pianist and composer.
Early life
Nevin was born on November 25, 1862, at Vineacre, on the banks of the Ohio River, in Edgeworth, Pennsylvania.Mulkearn, Lois, p. 62 ...
. However, as the twentieth century progressed, his fame was eclipsed by such American composers as
Charles Ives
Charles Edward Ives (; October 20, 1874May 19, 1954) was an American modernist composer, one of the first American composers of international renown. His music was largely ignored during his early career, and many of his works went unperformed f ...
,
Aaron Copland
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, and
Roy Harris. In 1950s,
Gilbert Chase, an American music historian and critic, wrote, "When Edward MacDowell appeared on the scene, many Americans felt that here at last was 'the great American composer' awaited by the nation. But MacDowell was not a great composer. At his best he was a gifted miniaturist with an individual manner. Creatively, he looked toward the past, not toward the future. He does not mark the beginning of a new epoch in American music, but the closing of a fading era, the ''fin de siecle'' decline of the genteel tradition which had dominated American art since the days of Hopkinson and Hewitt." In the 1970s, John Gillespie reaffirmed Chase's opinion by writing that MacDowell's place in time "accounts for his decreasing popularity; he does not belong with the great Romantics, Schumann and Brahms, but neither can be regarded as a precursor of twentieth century music." Other critics, such as
Virgil Thomson, maintained that MacDowell's legacy would be reconsidered and regain a place proper to its significance in the history of American music.
As romantic tradition in music never lost its relevance and importance, the twenty-first century brought a reassessment of MacDowell's legacy not only as a talented piano virtuoso and piano composer, but also as one of America's preeminent composers. On February 14, 2000, he was inducted into a national
Classical Music Hall of Fame.
[''Edward Macdowell Inducted Into Classical Music Hall Of Fame''](_blank)
April 28, 2000. MacDowell's two concertos now perceived as the "most important works in the genre by an American composer other than Gershwin." His four sonatas, two orchestral suites and multiple solo piano pieces are performed and recorded.
Works
The following lists were compiled from information in collections of sheet music, Lawrence Gilman's ''Edward MacDowell: A Study'' (1908), Oscar Sonneck's ''Catalogue of First Editions of Edward MacDowell'' (1917), and John F. Porte's ''Edward MacDowell'' (1922).
Published compositions for piano, a complete listing
*Op. 1 ''Amourette'' (1896) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 2 ''In Lilting Rhythm'' (1897) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 4 ''Forgotten Fairy Tales'' (1897) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 7 ''Six Fancies'' (1898) (as Edgar Thorn)
*In 1895, an "Op. 8 Waltz" for piano by MacDowell was listed by
Breitkopf & Härtel
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The catalogue currently contains over 1,000 composers, 8,000 works and 15,000 music editions or books on ...
, but no price was shown, and the piece was not published.
*Op. 10 ''First Modern Suite'' (1883)
*Op. 13 ''Prelude and Fugue'' (1883)
*Op. 14 ''Second Modern Suite'' (1883)
*Op. 15 ''Piano Concerto No. 1'' (1885)
*Op. 16 ''Serenata'' (1883)
*Op. 17 ''Two Fantastic Pieces'' (1884)
*Op. 18 ''Two Compositions'' (1884)
*Op. 19 ''Forest Idylls'' (1884)
*Op. 20 ''Three Poems'' (1886) duets
*Op. 21 ''Moon Pictures'' (1886) duets after
Hans Christian Andersen's "Picture-book without Pictures"
*Op. 23 ''
Piano Concerto No. 2'' (1890)
*Op. 24 ''Four Compositions'' (1887)
*Op. 28 ''Six Idylls after Goethe'' (1887)
*Op. 31 ''Six Poems after Heine'' (1887,1901)
*Op. 32 ''Four Little Poems'' (1888)
*Op. 36 ''Etude de Concert'' (1889)
*Op. 37 ''Les Orientales'' (1889)
*Op. 38 ''Marionettes'' (1888,1901)
*Op. 39 ''Twelve Studies'' (1890)
*Op. 45 ''Sonata Tragica'' (1893)
*Op. 46 ''Twelve Virtuoso Studies'' (1894)
*Op. 49 ''Air and Rigaudon'' (1894)
*Op. 50 ''Sonata Eroica'' (1895) "Flos regum Arthurus"
*Op. 51 ''
Woodland Sketches'' (1896) (for Robert La Fosse's ballet, see
''Woodland Sketches'' (ballet))
*Op. 55 ''Sea Pieces'' (1898)
*Op. 57 ''Third Sonata'' (1900)
*Op. 59 ''Fourth Sonata'' (1901)
*Op. 61 ''Fireside Tales'' (1902)
*Op. 62 ''New England Idylls'' (1902)
MacDowell published two books of ''Technical Exercises'' for piano; piano duet transcriptions of ''Hamlet and Ophelia'' for orchestra (Op. 22); ''First Suite'' for orchestra (Op. 42); and a piano solo version of Op. 42, No. 4, ''The Shepherdess' Song'', renamed ''The Song of the Shepherdess''. MacDowell composed his First Piano Concerto in the key of A minor in 1885 and published it as his Op.15.
It is in three movements:
Maestoso -
Allegro con fuoco,
Andante
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* Andante (tempo), a moderately slow musical tempo
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* "Andante" (song), a song by Hitomi Yaida
* " Andante, Andante", a 1980 song by ABBA from ''Super Trouper''
* ...
tranquillo, and
Presto
Published compositions for orchestra (complete)
*Op. 15 ''Piano Concerto No. 1'' (1885)
*Op. 22 ''Hamlet and Ophelia'' (1885)
*Op. 23 ''
Piano Concerto No. 2'' (1890)
*Op. 25 ''Lancelot and Elaine'' (1888)
*Op. 29 ''Lamia'' (1908)
*Op. 30 ''Two Fragments after the Song of Roland'' (1891) I. The Saracens - II. The Lovely Alda
*Op. 35 ''Romance for Violoncello and Orchestra'' (1888)
*Op. 42 ''First Suite'' (1891–1893) I. In a Haunted Forest - II. Summer Idyl - III. In October - IV. The Shepherdess' Song - V. Forest Spirits
*Op. 48 ''
Second ("Indian") Suite'' (1897) I. Legend - II. Love Song - III. In War-time - IV. Dirge - V. Village Festival
Published songs
*Op. 3 ''Love and Time'' and ''The Rose and the Gardener'', for male chorus (1897) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 5 ''The Witch'', for male chorus (1898) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 6 ''War Song'', for male chorus (1898) (as Edgar Thorn)
*Op. 9 ''Two Old Songs'', for voice and piano (1894) I. Deserted - II. Slumber Song
*Op. 11 and 12 ''An Album of Five Songs'', for voice and piano (1883) I. My Love and I - II. You Love Me Not - III. In the Skies - IV. Night-Song - V. Bands of Roses
*Op. 26 ''From an Old Garden'', for voice and piano (1887) I. The Pansy - II. The Myrtle - III. The Clover - IV. The Yellow Daisy - V. The Blue Bell - VI. The Mignonette
*Op. 27 ''Three Songs'', for male chorus (1890) I. In the Starry Sky Above Us - II. Springtime - III. The Fisherboy
*Op. 33 ''Three Songs'', for voice and piano (1894) I. Prayer - II. Cradle Hymn - III. Idyl
*Op. 34 ''Two Songs'', for voice and piano (1889) I. Menie - II. My Jean
*Op. 40 ''Six Love Songs'', for voice and piano (1890) I. Sweet, Blue-eyed Maid - II. Sweetheart, Tell Me - III. Thy Beaming Eyes - IV. For Love's Sweet Sake - V. O Lovely Rose - VI. I Ask but This
*Op. 41 ''Two Songs'', for male chorus (1890) I. Cradle Song - II. Dance of the Gnomes
*Op. 43 ''Two Northern Songs'', for mixed chorus (1891) I. The Brook - II. Slumber Song
*Op. 44 ''Barcarolle'', for mixed chorus with four-hand piano accompaniment (1892)
*Op. 47 ''Eight Songs'', for voice and piano (1893) I. The Robin Sings in the Apple Tree - II. Midsummer Lullaby - III. Folk Song - IV. Confidence - V. The West Wind Croons in the Cedar Trees - VI. In the Woods - VII. The Sea - VIII. Through the Meadow
*''Two Songs from the Thirteenth Century'', for male chorus (1897) I. Winter Wraps his Grimmest Spell - II. As the Gloaming Shadows Creep
*Op. 52 ''Three Choruses'', for male voices (1897) I. Hush, hush! - II. From the Sea - III. The Crusaders
*Op. 53 ''Two Choruses'', for male voices (1898) I. Bonnie Ann - II. The Collier Lassie
*Op. 54 ''Two Choruses'', for male voices (1898) I. A Ballad of Charles the Bold - II. Midsummer Clouds
*Op. 56 ''Four Songs'', for voice and piano (1898) I. Long Ago - II. The Swan Bent Low to the Lily - III. A Maid Sings Light - IV. As the Gloaming Shadows Creep
*Op. 58 ''Three Songs'', for voice and piano (1899) I. Constancy - II. Sunrise - III. Merry Maiden Spring
*Op. 60 ''Three Songs'', for voice and piano (1902) I. Tyrant Love - II. Fair Springtide - III. To the Golden Rod
*''Summer Wind'', for women's voices (1902)
*''Two College Songs'', for women's voices (1907) I. Alma Mater - II. At Parting
Selected recordings
*
Piano Concerto No. 2:
Van Cliburn,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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,
Walter Hendl (1960)
*
Piano Concerto No. 1 and
Piano Concerto No. 2:
Donna Amato
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Life
Amato studied under the renowned teacher and virtuoso, Ozan Marsh throughout her early musical training. After receiving ...
,
London Philharmonic Orchestra
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,
Paul Freeman (1985)
*
Woodland Sketches, Op.51,
Sea Pieces, Op.55,
Fireside Tales, Op.61,
New England Idyls, Op.62:
James Barbagallo (1993)
*
Piano Sonata No.4 "Keltic", Op.59,
Forgotten Fairytales, Op.4,
Six poems after Heine, Op.31,
Twelve Virtuoso Studies, Op.46 :
James Barbagallo
*
Étude de Concert, Op.36,
Second Modern Suite, Op.14,
Serenata, Op.16,
Two Fantasy Pieces, Op.17,
Twelve Études, Op.39 :
James Barbagallo
* ''Piano Music by Edward MacDowell'', Sandra Carlock, pianist (2005)
''Piano Music by Edward MacDowell – Sandra Carlock''
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* ''Heroic Tales: Piano Music of Edward MacDowell'', Fred Karpoff, pianist (2002)
Bibliography
* Gilman, Lawrence: ''Edward MacDowell: A Study'' (New York, 1909; reprint N.Y., 1969).
* Baltzell, W. J. (ed.): ''Critical and Historical Essays: Lectures Delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell'' (Boston, 1912).
* Sonneck, Oscar: ''Catalogue of First Editions of Edward MacDowell'' (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1917).
* Humiston, W. H.: ''Edward MacDowell'' (New York, 1921).
* Porte, John F.: ''Edward Macdowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music'' (New York, 1922).
* Lowens, Margery Morgan: ''The New York Years of Edward MacDowell'' (Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1971).
* Levy, Alan H.: ''Edward MacDowell, an American Master'' (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1998).
* Bomberger, E. Douglas: ''MacDowell'' (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); .
See also
* New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 206: The MacDowell Graves
References
*
External links
*
** online book
** online book
*
Oscar Sonneck, ''Catalogue of First Editions of Edward MacDowell'' (Library of Congress, 1917)
online book
Art of the States: Edward MacDowell
*
* ttp://www.free-sheet-music.de/MacDowell/to-a-wild-rose.htm "To a Wild Rose"free PDF and MIDI
*
*, Thomas Pandolfi
*
Sheet music for "To a Wild Rose"
A.P. Schmidt Company, 1919
*Sheet music fo
"Sea Pieces"
Boston: Arthur P. Schmidt Co, 1898. Fro
Wade Hall Sheet Music Collection
Finding aid to Edward MacDowell papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Edward MacDowell recordings
at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
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