Author: Beach, Amy; [Mrs. H.H.A. Beach]; and Ochsner, Bertha.
Title: A Mirage, Words by Bertha Ochsner, Music by Mrs. H.H. A. Beach, Op. 100, No. 1. For Soprano Voice, Violin, Cello & Piano". A Printed Score from the Holograph Manuscript. [4 Parts, Consisting of the Scores for "High Voice", "Soprano, Violin, Cello and Piano", "Violin", and "Cello"].
Description: [1924]. [1924]. - Quarto, 13-1/2 inches high by 10-3/4 inches wide. Printed self-wraps consisting of loose signatures and leaves. What is offered here is the contemporary score for Amy Beach's "A Mirage" with lyrics from a poem by Bertha Ochsner. The 11-page score, consisting of 4 parts, is lithographed from the holograph score onto 8 sheets of GSNY music paper. The first part, being the score for "soprano voice, violin, cello & piano" consists of 5 pages printed on both sides of each sheet. The second, being the vocal part, consists of 3 pages printed on both sides of each sheet. The third and fourth parts, for "Violin" and "Cello", each consist of one page printed on one side of the sheets. The pages are slightly soiled, particularly along the edges. There are creases to the edges and corners and the edges are chipped with a piece torn out from the top right corner of the soprano's score. Good. The score is dedicated to Dr. & Mrs. A.J. Ochsner of Chicago at the top of the cover pages to the full score and the part for voice. A child prodigy, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) was an American composer and pianist and the first successful American female composer of large-scale classical music. Born in New Hampshire, she was able to sing over 40 tunes by the age of one and could improvise countermelody by 2 years of age. Teaching herself to read, she was composing waltzes by the age of 4 and was performing public piano recitals, playing Handel, Beethoven, Chopin and her own compositions, by the age of seven. Moving to Boston in 1875, she studied piano with Ernst Perabo and Carl Baermann and later studied composition for a year with Junius W. Hill. Otherwise self-taught, she learned by studying great classical pieces. She made her professional piano debut in Boston in 1883 and soon after appeared as a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. After her marriage to Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach in 1885, she agreed to limit her performances to one a year and devoted herself to composition. Her first real success came 1892 with the performance of her "Mass in E-flat major" by the Handel and Haydn Society which established her an one of America's foremost composers. She composed "Jubilate" for the dedication of the Woman's Building at the Columbian Exposition. After her husband's death, she toured Europe as a pianist to establish her reputation as a pianist and composer. Returning to American she spent time at the MacDowell Colony in Perterborough, NH and later became the composer-in-residence at New York City's St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. She died of a heart attack in 1944 and was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1999. The poem to which Amy Beach has set these lyrics is by Bertha Ochsner, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Albert J. Ochsner of Chicago to whom the score is dedicated. From the library of Louise Llewellyn Jarecka (1880-1954), concert singer & writer. The wife of the composer Tadeusz Jarecki. A student of Marcella Sembrich, Jarecka was invited by President Wilson to sing at the White House. During the 1920's and 1930's she sang with many European Orchestras and in the Polish Opera. A RARE form of the score. Good .

Keywords: MUSIC; CLASSICAL; COMPOSITIONS; ORIGINAL; LITHOGRAPH; HOLOGRAPH SCORE; A MIRAGE; SOPRANO, VIOLIN, CELLO; PIANO; HIGH VOICE; PARTS; MRS. A.A.H. BEACH; AMY BEACH; BERTHA OCHSNER; DEDICATED TO DR. AND MRS. ALBERT OCHSNER OF CHICAGO; POEM; LYRICS; AN ORIGINAL


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