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Frederick Shepherd Converse (January 5, 1871 – June 8, 1940), was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies. Life and career. Converse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Edmund Winchester and Charlotte Augusta (Shepherd) Converse.
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- Frederick Converse collection, 1890s-1960s
1900-1930s. Major Language (s) English. Repository. Music Division, Library of Congress. Physical Collection. Number of Items. 500. Number of Containers. 15. Linear Feet. 15. Contents. Music and literary manuscripts, programs, librettos, notebooks, photographs, newspaper clippings, sound recordings. Processing History. Unprocessed. Provenance.
Frederick Shepherd Converse was an American composer whose essentially Romantic music is coloured with chromaticism and advanced harmonies. Converse studied with John Knowles Paine and George Chadwick, two members of a conservative, German-influenced group of American composers, and his early works.
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Frederick Shepherd Converse (b. Newton, Mass., Jan. 5, 1871; d. Westwood, Mass., June 8, 1940) was an American composer, teacher and administrator. Converse graduated from Harvard College in 1893 where he studied with John Knowles Paine. Converse pursued further advanced studies in piano with Carl Baermann and in composition with George W ...
Jan 5, 2003 · NPR's Tom Huizenga reports on Buffalo Philharmonic music director Joann Falletta's rediscovery of American composer Frederick Shepherd Converse. Converse, born on this day in 1871, was best...
A prominent U.S. composer in the early 20th century, Frederick S. Converse wrote essentially Romantic music colored with impressionistic touches. Although his early works were conservative, he adopted a mildly modern idiom in the symphonic fantasy Flivver Ten Million (1927), written to celebrate the production of the ten millionth Ford automobile.
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