Arthur Farwell

Arthur Farwell ( born April 23 1872 in Saint Paul / Minnesota, † January 20, 1952 in New York City ) was an American composer.

Farwell acquired in 1893 the degree of Bachelor of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before he went to Boston to study with George Whitefield Chadwick and Homer Norris. He also took composition lessons with Edward MacDowell.

On a European trip he took in 1897 in Berlin lessons with Engelbert Humperdinck and Hans Pfitzner and in Paris in 1898 when Alexandre Guilmant. After his return he taught from 1899 to 1901 at Cornell University and then founded in Newton Centre / Massachusetts the music publishing Wa -Wan Press, the publishing of contemporary American music and devoted himself in 1912 burst into the music publisher Gustav Schirmer. He was also from 1909 to 1914 music critic of the New Yorker magazine Musical America.

From 1915 to 1918 he headed the Music School Settlement in New York and then taught at the University of California at Berkeley, and from 1921 to 1925 at the Music and Art Association in Pasadena. From 1927 to 1939 he conducted at Michigan State College in East Lansing, the department music theory. Among his pupils were the composer Dika Newlin and Roy Harris.

Farwell composed several symphonic works, two stage games with Native American themes, several works for chorus and orchestra, a violin sonata, a piano quintet, piano pieces, choruses and songs.

• Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
• American composer
• Born in 1872
• Died in 1952
• Man