Frederick Converse
American classical music composer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederick Shepherd Converse , was an American composer of classical music, whose works include four operas and five symphonies. Life and career Converse was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of Edmund Winchester and Charlotte Augusta Converse. His father was a successful merchant, and president of the National Tube Works and the Conanicut Mills. Frederick Converse's higher education was at Harvard College, where he came under the influence of the composer John K. Paine. Converse had already received instruction in piano playing, and the study of musical theory was a most important part of his college course. Upon his graduation in 1893, his violin sonata was performed and won him highest honors in music.
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- Applied Soil Mechanics (1943) (4)
- La belle dame sans merci (after the poem by Keats.) Ballade for baritone solo and orchestra. Paraphrase for pianoforte and voice ... Op. 12 .. (0)
- Song of the world adventurers from the Music for the Masque of St. Louis. Chorus for mixed voices. Words by Percy MacKaye. Music by F. S. Converse. (0)
- REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON METHODS OF EXPLORING, SURVEYING AND SAMPLING SOILS FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES (1938) (0)
- Dirge : from the music for the Masque of St. Louis, for women's voices (0)
- Song of the world adventurers. From the Music for the Masque of St. Louis. Arranged for high school chorus by Prof. Archibald T. Davison. Words by Percy MacKaye. (0)
- Pressures beneath a Spread Foundation (1938) (0)
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