The Old Boatman

Composer: PRICE, Florence
  • This is one of Price’s many teaching pieces for piano students. It was first published in 1951
  • Price enjoyed writing piano teaching pieces: she wrote repertoire for young pianists, as well as for organ students and violin students.1
  • Price had earned a Piano Teacher’s Diploma from the New England Conservatory during her studies there. She was particularly active as a piano teacher when she lived in Little Rock, Arkansas, between her graduation from the conservatory in 1906 and her move to Chicago in 1927.2

Sources

  1. Rae Linda Brown, The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020), ebook.
  2. Linda Rae Brown, “Price [née Smith], Florence Bea(trice),” Grove Music Online (March 30, 2020), accessed July 22, 2021,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000367402

Cut IDs

21362