Scottish Legend, Op. 53, No. 1

Composer: BEACH, Amy Marcy Cheney
  • Beach’s Op. 53 was published in 1903. The other piece in the set is Beach’s Gavotte fantastique.1
  • Beach played this piece often in recitals, both in America and during her residency in Germany.2
  • On June 28, 1915, there was a “Mrs. H.H.A. Beach Day” at the Panama-California Exposition in Balboa Park in San Diego. This was the second world’s-fair style event that had ever taken place in California. This piece was one of the Beach compositions performed on this occasion.3

Sources

  1. Adrienne Fried Block and E. Douglas Bomberger, “Beach [Cheney], Amy Marcy,” Grove Music Online (October 16, 2013), accessed March 31, 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, 1867-1944 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 186, 208, 359.
  3. Ibid., 205.

Cut IDs

17066