EDWARD ALEXANDER MacDOWELL (1861-1908) American composer. Edward Alexander MacDowell Free midi downloads.

EDWARD ALEXANDER MacDOWELL
18th December 1861 --- 23^rd January 1908

Edward MacDowell was a American musical composer, and was born in New York city in 1861. His parents, who were Irish, had emigrated
to America from Belfast, Ireland (now Northen Ireland) shortly before MacDowell birth. He had a varied education in music, first under a
Spanish-American teacher, and then he travelled to Europe to study at Paris (Debussy being a fellow pupil), then moved onto Stuttgart,
Wiesbaden and Weimar, where he was chiefly influenced by Joachim, Raff and Liszt.

From 1879 to 1887 he went to live in Germany teaching and studying,and also appearing as a solo pianist at important concerts. In 1884 he
married Marian Nevins of New York. He returned to America in 1888 and settled in Boston until 1896 when he was made professor of music
at Columber university, New York. This post he resigned as a result of a disagreement with the university in 1904 and in 1905 overwork and
insomnia resulted in a complete cerebral collapse. He died on Jan 1908.

MacDowell's work's gives him perhaps the highest place among American composers. He was deeply influenced by modern French models
and by German romanticism, its full of poetry and "atmosphere" and is founded on the "programme" idea's of composition, it is essentially
creative in sprit of a searcher after delicate truths of artistic expression.

His employment of touches of American folk song, suggested by Indian themes, is characteristic. This is notably the case with his orcestral
work Indian Suite (1896) and Woodland Sketches (1896), for the piano, (some of the midi pieces I have sequenced below are from the
Woodland Sketches).
Copyright 1953 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated on September 2025
By Steven

And now for the Music

(4627)"The beautiful Rose garden". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4623)"Aus Liliput". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4622)"The Tailor and the Bear". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4594)"An Elfin Round". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4586)"Buette". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4585)"Across Fields". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4580)"A Tin Soldier's Love". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4579)"To a Humming Bird". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4578)"Summer Song". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

NEW (4810)"Erzahlung, A Tale, Opus.17". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4681)"In the Woods, No.1, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4680)"Siesta, No.2, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4687)"To the Moonlight, No.3, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4782)"Silver Clouds, No.4, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4783)"Flute Idyl, No.5, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4789)"The Bluebell, No.6, Opus.28". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4761)"Concert, Etude, Opus 36". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4565)"Air, Opus.49, No.1". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(4571)"Rigaudon, Opus.49, No.2". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3512)"By a Meadow Brook No.9, Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3511)"Told at Sunset No.10, Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3507)"From Uncle Remus No.7, Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3506)"A Deserted Farm, No.8, Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3500)"At an Old Trysting Place, No.3, Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

(3499)"In Autumn No.4 Opus.51". Sequenced by Steven Ritchie.

Thanks to Jerry A. Enfield for the music below.
(3552)"The Witches Dance, No.2 Opus.17". Sequenced by Jerry A. Enfield.

(3551)"The Willows". Sequencer Unknown.

(3550)"Unknown". Sequencer Unknown.

(3549)"From the Indian suite". Sequencer Unknown.

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