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Amy Beach

1867 - 1944

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Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 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 1896, was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman. She was one of the first American composers of her era to succeed without the benefit of European training, and was known as one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Amy Beach is the 582nd most popular composer (up from 715th in 2019), the 3,058th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,415th in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Amy Beach ranks 582 out of 1,451. Before her are Eleni Karaindrou, Florian Leopold Gassmann, Guillaume Lekeu, Pavel Haas, Alois Hába, and Johann Christoph Pepusch. After her are Hervé, Tikhon Khrennikov, Manos Hatzidakis, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Ferdinand Hérold, and Morton Feldman.

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Among people born in 1867, Amy Beach ranks 67. Before her are Masaoka Shiki, Carl Laemmle, Cy Young, Marie Krøyer, Elvira Madigan, and Jean-Baptiste Charcot. After her are Julien Benda, Arthur Rackham, Winsor McCay, Anathon Aall, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., and Sister Nivedita. Among people deceased in 1944, Amy Beach ranks 126. Before her are Paul von Hase, Hans Krása, Adelbert Schulz, André Abegglen, Fritz Pfeffer, and Pavel Haas. After her are Zinaida Portnova, Josef Bürckel, Kosta Pećanac, Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Emanuel Ringelblum, and Paul Hazard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 3,058 out of 20,380. Before her are Ariana Grande (1993), Edmond Hamilton (1904), John Brown Gordon (1832), Bill Finger (1914), Edward Snowden (1983), and Bruce McCandless II (1937). After her are Rami Malek (1981), Chris Pine (1980), Alvin Plantinga (1932), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Lyman Spitzer (1914), and Alan Hale Jr. (1921).

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Among COMPOSERS In United States

Among composers born in United States, Amy Beach ranks 31. Before her are George Antheil (1900), Bill Conti (1942), Leroy Anderson (1908), Terry Riley (1935), Michael Kamen (1948), and John Adams (1947). After her are Morton Feldman (1926), Ernest Guiraud (1837), James Scott (1885), Stephen Foster (1826), Alex North (1910), and Basil Poledouris (1945).

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