Amy Marcy Cheney (Mrs. H. H. A.) Beach

Better known for her piano compositions, Amy Beach, or "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach," as she commonly signed her compositions, was one of America's first successful woman composers of formal concert music. Her one opera, Cabildo, was not performed in her lifetime.

• Cabildo, chamber opera in 1 act
  Libretto by Nan Bagby Stephens.
  composed 1932; premiere May 13, 1995, Lincoln Center, New York, New York, Ransom Wilson, cond. (professional premiere); 1947 ((amateur performance)); also 1981, University of Missouri-Kansas City; 1982, American Musicological Society; 1982, Sonneck Society

Discography

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Amy Beach Cabildo Great Performers at Lincoln Center CD / Delos DE 3180 (1995)

Bibliography

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Adrienne Fried Block Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian Oxford University Press 2000

Last update: January 1, 2009