Edward MacDowell

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Title: Edward MacDowell
Author: John F. Porte
Release Date: November 28, 2004 [eBook #14185]
Language: English
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EDWARD MACDOWELL
A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music
by
JOHN F. PORTE
Author of Edward Elgar, Sir Charles V. Stanford, etc.
With a Portrait of Edward MacDowell and Musical Illustrations in the Text
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company 681 Fifth Avenue
1922
I do like the works of the American composer MacDowell! What a musician! He is sincere and personal—what a poet
—what exquisite harmonies!—Jules Massenet.
I consider MacDowell the ideally endowed composer.—Edvard Grieg.
[Illustration]FROM MACDOWELL'S COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LECTURES.
(Published as Critical and Historical Essays).
_For it is in the nature of the spiritual part of mankind to shrink from the earth, to aspire to something higher; a bird
soaring in the blue above us has something of the ethereal; we give wings to our angels. On the other hand, a serpent
impresses us as something sinister. Trees, with their strange ...