Music number 20th century notation1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() There were other good American composers from the Romantic era, but little of that music is known today except by specialists. At one point the second concerto was thought to be as worthy as the Edvard Grieg concerto. Woodland Sketches contains the once omnipresent To a Wild Rose (which Art Tatum would repeatedly quote), but MacDowell’s best piano piece might be the sparkling Hexentanz, occasionally still heard as an encore. The most popular Romantic American composer was Edward MacDowell, who wrote many piano pieces and two piano concertos. ![]() It is music that will forever remain justly obscure, but, still, let the record show that the first American piano composer of note might be called, “The Thelonious Monk of the Classical Style.” Antony Heinrich‘s idiosyncratic pre-Civil War piano music is startlingly rough-hewn and abstract, with blunt corners more extreme than Joseph Haydn or Ludwig Van Beethoven. ![]()
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