Like Parker and Chadwick, he was an important teacher of composition as well. He wrote the earliest important symphonies written by an American his First Symphony anticipated Brahms’s by a year. The other composers all wrote significant music and should certainly be heard more often in concert (which almost never happens) today.īorn in 1839, John Knowles Paine is the oldest of the group.
Of the remaining five, Horatio Parker is almost exclusively famous (or infamous) today for being the stick-in-the mud teacher of Charles Ives at Yale.
Of the six composers who made up the Boston Six or Second New England School of composers, I find Chadwick the most consistent and for me, the most appealing. CHADWICK: Adonais: Elegiac Overture Cleopatra: Symphonic Poem A Pastoral Prelude Sinfonietta in D Major – BBC Concert Orch./ Keith Lockhart – Dutton Epoch CDLX 7293, 68:46 ****:
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