Carl McKinley

Carl McKinley ( born October 9, 1895 in Yarmouth / Maine; † July 24, 1966 in Boston ) was an American composer.

McKinley studied at the Conservatory of Yalesburg / Illinois and Harvard University. With a Naumburg Scholarship at Harvard University, he continued his education in 1917-18 with Rubin Goldmark, Gaston Dethier and Walter Henry Rothwell continued in New York. He was organist in Hartford / Connecticut and at the Capitol Theatre in New York. From 1929 he taught at the New England Conservatory.

In addition to an oratorio and a cantata he composed three symphonic poems, an Indian Summer Idyll for orchestra (world premiere in 1919 by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra ) and chamber music works.

• Man
• Born in 1895
• Died in 1966
• American composer