Henry Kimball Hadley

Henry Kimball Hadley ( born December 20 1871 in Somerville / Massachusetts, † September 6, 1937 in New York City ) was an American composer and conductor.

Hadley studied in Boston at Dwight Benjamin Allen, Stephen Albert Emery and George Chadwick and in Vienna with Eusebius Mandyczewski. From 1896 to 1904 he was organist in Garden City / Long Iceland, after which he returned to Europe, where he studied with Ludwig Thuille. From 1909 to 1911 he was conductor of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, after which he was principal conductor of the newly formed San Francisco Symphony. From 1920 to 1927 he was conductor of the New York Philharmonic Society, and from 1929 to 1932 and founder of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra.

He composed six operas, operettas and musicals, four symphonies, two symphonic poems, a symphonic fantasy, an orchestral rhapsody, overtures, a cello and a piano concerto, chamber music and choral works as well as four songs.

Works

  • Happy Jack, operetta
  • Nancy Brown, musical comedy, 1903
  • The Culprit Fay, orchestral rhapsody, 1909
  • Safie, the Persian, opera, 1909
  • North, East, South, West, Symphony No. 4, 1911
  • The Atonement of Pan, Music Drama, 1912
  • The Pearl Girl, operetta
  • The Masque of Newark, 1916
  • Azora, the Daughter of Montezuma, opera, 1917
  • Bianca, opera, 1918
  • Cleopatra 's Night, opera, 1920
  • The Ocean, symphonic poem, 1921
  • Sempervirens, opera
  • The Fire Prince, operetta
  • A Night in Old Paris, radio opera, 1924
  • Don Juan, film music, 1926
  • The Legend of Hani, opera, 1933
  • The Red Flame, Musical
  • Lucifer, symphonic poem
  • Salome, symphonic poem
  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • American composer
  • Conductor
  • Born in 1871
  • Died in 1937
  • Man
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