- Beach composed this piece in 1911,1 and it was published in 1926.2
- Beach wrote this piece the year she left for a residency in Europe. She performed frequently in Germany from 1912 until the outbreak of World War I.3
- Beach began writing this piece during a visit to the Tyrol region in 1911, and completed it in Munich in 1914.4
- Beach performed this piece’s premiere in an all-Beach recital in Boston on Dec. 16, 1914.5
- Beach quotes a couple German folk themes in this piece: “Kommt ein Vogel geflogen” and “Rosestock Holderblüh.”6
Sources
- Adrienne Fried Block, Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian: The Life and Work of an American Composer, 1867-1944 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 306.
- 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.
- Ibid.
- Kirsten Johnson, liner notes to Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume IV: The Late Works, Guild 7387, CD, 2012, accessed March 30, 2022, https://www.kirstenjohnsonpiano.com/recordings/the-amy-beach-project/amy-beach-piano-music-volume-iv-late-works-guild-7387/.
- Block, Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian, 199.
- Johnson, liner notes to Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume IV.
Cut IDs
42067