My Star (voice and piano)
Publication Information
From Sechs Lieder op.9 no.5 (1897)
Original Listing
Paul Laurence Dunbar, Over the Hills
Biographical Information
(1871-1937) Henry Hadley was a composer and conductor who began his first musical instruction piano and violin under his father. By age 17, he had written his first operetta. He then studied violin under Henry Heindl and Charles Allen; harmony under Stephen A. Emery; and counterpoint and composition with George W. Chadwick. Hadley toured with the Mapleson Operatic Company as a violinist. He went to Vienna to study under musicologist and editor Esubius Mandczewski. He was the first American guest conductor in Berlin. Hadley was the conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and later the first conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. He was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1924, and in 1933, he founded the National Association of American Composers and Conductors.
Recommended Citation
Hadley, Henry Kimball, "My Star (voice and piano)" (1897). Dunbar Music Archive. 219.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/dunbar/219
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