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Edward MacDowell

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Composer
Died
Jan 23, 1908
Zodiac
Sagittarius
Born in
New York
About
Romantic-era composer and pianist best remembered for "Woodland Sketches," "Sea Pieces," "New England Idylls," and other piano suites. His most popular piece was "To a Wild Rose" from "Woodland Sketches." He sometimes worked under the pseudonym Edgar Thorn.
Family
His family relocated to Paris in 1877, enabling him to attend the Paris Conservatoire. He married Marian Griswold Nevins, one of his piano students, in 1884.

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