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Feb 18, 1998 · Mr. Cohn's symphonic works included ''Music for Ancient Instruments,'' a concerto for five antique instruments with a modern orchestra (1939), a Flute Concerto (1941), Variations for Clarinet ...
His chamber scores included 1937's Machine Music for two pianos, a half-dozen string quartets composed between 1928 and 1945, and 1958's Quotations in Percussion, a composition for six musicians designed for play on a staggering 103 instruments. As an author, Cohn published 1961's The Collector's 20th-Century Music in the Western Hemisphere and ...
Arthur Cohn worked in the Irving Fine studio. Youngstown Studio was given to MacDowell by friends of Miss Myra McKeown in Youngstown, OH, where she promoted both art and music. It was renamed Irving Fine Studio in 1972 in honor of Irving Fine, a distinguished composer, conductor, and teacher who was a MacDowell Fellow during the 1940s and 1950s.
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Arthur Cohn (1910-1998) was an American composer, conductor, and critical and historical writer on music. The Arthur Cohn collection, dating from 1923 to 1941, mainly holds notes, drafts, illustrations, and research clippings for an unpublished book titled The Art and Science of Orchestration. It also contains scores for nine of Cohn's ...
From 1942 to 1965 he conducted the Sym. Club of Philadelphia, and also the Germantown Sym. Orch. (1949–55), the Philadelphia Little Sym. (1952–56), and the Haddonfield (N.J.) Sym. Orch. Source for information on Cohn, Arthur: Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians dictionary.
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