Percy Goetschius

Percy Goetschius ( born August 30, 1853 in Paterson, New Jersey, † October 29, 1943 in Manchester, New Hampshire) was one of the most important music theorist, and composition teacher of his time in the United States.

Life

Goetschius was a piano student of Robert EH Gehring. He was 1868-1873 as organist at the Second Presbyterian and First Presbyterian Church of his native city, as well as a pianist of Mr. Benson's Paterson Choral Society. In 1873 he went to study music theory at the Conservatory in Stuttgart. There he was in 1885 appointed by the King of Württemberg Karl Friedrich Alexander the royal Württemberg professor.

Since 1892, he taught at the New England Conservatory in Boston and in 1905 was a teacher at the New York Institute of Music and Art under Frank Damrosch. Among his pupils were, inter alia, Pauline Alderman, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, Samuel Gardner, Howard Hanson, Eva Jessye, Arthur Loesser, Daniel Gregory Mason, Pierre Maurice, Leo Ornstein, Wallingford Riegger, Richard Rodgers, Zygmund Przemyslaw Rondomanski and Arthur Shepherd. He has written nine music-theoretical writings, which are recognized today as the standard works.

Writings

  • The Material Used in Musical Composition (New York: G. Schirmer, 1882)
  • Lessons in musical form ( Boston: Oliver Ditson, 1904)
  • The Homophonic Forms of Musical Composition (New York: G. Schirmer, 1921)
  • Counterpoint (New York: G. Schirmer, 1930)
  • Musicologist
  • Music teacher
  • Americans
  • Born in 1853
  • Died in 1943
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