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| 1919 deaths | |
| yale school of music faculty | |
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He was born in Auburndale , Massachusetts . After early study in the United States with George Whitefield Chadwick and others, he went to Europe, a common destination for a young American composer in the 1880s . In Munich he studied with Josef Rheinberger ; also in Munich he composed his first significant works, including a Symphony and a dramatic Cantata . After returning to the U.S. he took a succession of jobs as a teacher, organist and choirmaster, mostly in New York City . In 1893 he became professor at Yale University , a position which he held for the rest of his life. Parker died in Cedarhurst, New York . While Parker is mostly remembered for a single work, the Oratorio '' Hora Novissima '', based on the poem by Bernard Of Cluny , he was a prolific and versatile composer in a mostly conservative Germanic tradition, writing two operas, songs, organ music, incidental music, and a copious quantity of music for chorus and orchestra. Influences in his music include Mendelssohn , Brahms , Wagner , as well as Debussy and Elgar in some works which he composed closer to 1900 . During his lifetime he was considered to be the finest composer in the United States, a superior craftsman writing in the most advanced style. In laid the cornerstone. "Auburndale" was later published in the 1918 Hymnal ("The Messiah Miracle: A History The Church of the Messiah of West Newton and Auburndale 1871-1971," privately published, 1971). NOTABLE STUDENTS EXTERNAL LINKS |
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