Invocation, Op. 55

Composer: BEACH, Amy Marcy Cheney
  • Beach composed this chamber piece in 1904.1 It was originally scored for violin, organ and cello, and later arranged for violin and piano.2
  • The religious undertones of this piece are displayed not only in the title, but also in the original instrumentation with organ, and in the tempo direction: Adagio con elevazione.3

Sources

  1. Adrienne Fried Block and E. Douglas Bomberger, “Beach [Cheney], Amy Marcy,” Grove Music Online (October 16, 2013), accessed August 26, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-1002248268
  2. Adrienne Fried Block, Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 302. 
  3. Laura Tunbridge, liner notes to Tasmin Little Plays Clara Schumann, Dame Ethel Smyth, Amy Beach, Tasmin Little, John Lenahan, Chandos 20030, CD, 2019.

Cut IDs

22987