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Edward MacDowell
p, 1860-1908 US, New York City
Musician / Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Edward Alexander MacDowell
Edward Alexander MacDowell (December 18, 1860 – January 23, 1908) was an American composer and pianist of the Romantic period. He was best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces and New England Idylls. Woodland Sketches includes his most popular short piece, "To a Wild Rose". In 1904 he was one of the first seven Americans honored by membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Discography
| Title | Artist | Year | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodland Sketches, Op. 51 / Sonata Tragica In G Minor, Op. 45 | Edward MacDowell - Vivian Rivkin | 2006 | Album |
| Howard Hanson Conducts American Masterworks | Howard Hanson Conducts: Samuel Barber • Walter Piston • George Whitefield Chadwick • Charles Ives • Edward MacDowell • Morton Gould • William Schuman • Peter Mennin • Douglas Moore • Charles Griffes ‒ Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 2004 | Compil. |
| Suites Nos. 1 and 2 / Hamlet and Ophelia | Edward MacDowell - Ulster Orchestra, Takuo Yuasa | 2001 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No 1 In A Minor / Piano Concerto No 2 In D Minor / Second Modern Suite Op 14 | Edward MacDowell, Seta Tanyel | 2001 | Album |
| Piano Concertos Nos. 1 And 2 / Witches' Dance / Romance For Cello And Orchestra | Edward MacDowell, Stephen Prutsman, Aisling Drury-Byrne, Irish National Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Fagen | 2000 | Album |
| Piano Music Vol. 4 | Edward MacDowell, James Barbagallo | 1999 | Album |
| Spätromantische Klavierkompositionen | Edward MacDowell, Alexandra Oehler | 1998 | Album |
| Piano Music Vol. 1 | Edward MacDowell, James Barbagallo | 1998 | Album |
| American Masterpieces | Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, Charles Griffes, Edward MacDowell, George Gershwin, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Arthur Benjamin, Richard Rodgers, Virgil Thomson, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, André Kostelanetz | 1997 | Compil. |
| Skyscrapers | Kenneth Klein, The London Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Foote, John Alden Carpenter, John Knowles Paine, Dudley Buck, Edward MacDowell | 1997 | Album |
| Piano concerto No. 2 / Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 | Edward MacDowell, Franz Liszt, André Watts, Andrew Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra | 1996 | Album |
| Fiddler's Jig / Air & Scherzo / Concerto Grosso / Hymn & Fuguing Tune No. 10 | Henry Cowell / Vincent Persichetti / Edward MacDowell | 1994 | Album |
| Piano Music Vol. 3 | Edward MacDowell | 1994 | Album |
| Piano Music Vol. 1 | Edward MacDowell, James Barbagallo | 1993 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 In D-Minor, Op. 23 / Concerto For Piano And Orchestra Op. 45 | Edward MacDowell, Amy Marcy Cheney Beach | 1992 | Compil. |
| Rachmaninov Concerto No. 3 / MacDowell Concerto No. 2 | Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Jascha Horenstein Conducting The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward MacDowell, Massimo Freccia Conducting RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Earl Wild | 1992 | Compil. |
| The Piano Concertos: Piano Concerto No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 2 | Edward MacDowell - Vivian Rivkin, Orchester Der Wiener Staatsoper, Dean Dixon | 1992 | Album |
| Concerto No. 1 In A Minor, Op. 15 / Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 23 | Edward MacDowell - Thomas Tirino, Bulgarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vassil Kazandjiev | 1992 | Album |
| Lieder | Charles Ives · Charles Griffes · Edward MacDowell - Thomas Hampson, Armen Guzelimian | 1991 | Album |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 | Edward MacDowell | 1990 | Album |
| Duncan Stearns Performs Piano Music By Edward MacDowell And Josef Hofmann | Duncan Stearns Performs Piano Music By Edward MacDowell And Josef Hofmann | 1987 | Album |
| Skyscrapers | John Alden Carpenter, Dudley Buck, John Knowles Paine, Edward MacDowell, Arthur Foote, Kenneth Klein | 1987 | Album |
| The Two Piano Concerts | Edward MacDowell, Donna Amato, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Freeman | 1985 | Album |
| Woodland Sketches ; Sea Pieces | Edward MacDowell / Dario Cristiano Müller | 1984 | Album |
| First Modern Suite / Sonata No. 4 | Edward MacDowell - Charles Fierro | 1982 | Album |
| Veronica Jochum Plays Compositions Of Edward A. MacDowell, Charles T. Griffes | Veronica Jochum Plays Compositions Of Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes | 1977 | Album |
| Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic"" (1930) And Macdowell's Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op 23 | Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Earl Wild, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt, Massimo Freccia | 1977 | Album |
| Explores Music Of The New World | Edward MacDowell, George Walker, Samuel Barber - Leon Bates | 1976 | Album |
| Sonata Eroica / Woodland Sketches | Edward MacDowell - Clive Lythgoe | 1976 | Album |
| Sonata No. 2 In g, Op. 50 "Eroica" / Sonata No. 3 In d, Op. 57 "Norse" | Edward MacDowell - Yoriko Takahashi | 1975 | Album |
| Second Modern Suite • Sea Pieces • Two Dances | Edward MacDowell - Andrea Anderson Swem | 1975 | Album |
| Indian Suite (Suite No. 2), Op. 48 / Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 23 | Edward MacDowell, Eugene List, Westfälisches Sinfonieorchester, Siegfried Landau | 1973 | Album |
| Gershwin: Concerto In F - MacDowell: Concerto No. 2 In D Minor | George Gershwin - Edward MacDowell / Edward Downes, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Roberto Szidon | 1970 | Album |
| Symphony No. 3 · Suite No. 1, Opus 42 | Howard Hanson, Edward MacDowell, Eastman-Rochester Orchestra | 1966 | Album |
| La Musica In America | George Gershwin, Edward MacDowell | 1966 | Single |
| The Scandalous Life of Frankie and Johnny, Indian Suite No. 2, Op. 48 | Jerome Moross, Edward MacDowell – Wiener Symphoniker / Dean Dixon, Walter Hendl | 1965 | Album |
| The Two Piano Concerti | Edward MacDowell - Eugene List, Carlos Chávez | 1962 | Album |
| Concerto No. 3 / Concerto No. 2 | Van Cliburn, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Walter Hendl - Sergei Prokofiev / Edward MacDowell | 1961 | Album |
| Piano Portraits | Claude Debussy, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Edward MacDowell, Moritz Moszkowski, Domenico Scarlatti, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt - Leonard Pennario | 1961 | Album |
| Basic Library Of The World's Greatest Music - Album No. 23 | Joseph Haydn, Edward MacDowell | 1958 | Album |
| Second Indian Suite, Op. 48 | Edward MacDowell | 1956 | Album |
| Piano Concerto Nº 1 & 2º | Edward MacDowell | 1956 | Album |
| Concerto No. 2 In D Minor For Piano And Orchestra, Op. 23 / Symphony No. 2 "Romantic," Op. 30 | Edward MacDowell, Howard Hanson | 1953 | Album |
| Indian Suite, Opus 48 / Concerto For Cello And Orchestra | Edward MacDowell / Victor Herbert - American Recording Society Orchestra - Dean Dixon / Bernard Greenhouse, Max Schönherr | 1953 | Compil. |
| Woodland Sketches | Edward MacDowell / Salvador Camarata And His Orchestra | 1953 | Album |
| Indian Suite Opus 48 | Edward MacDowell - American Recording Society Orchestra, Dean Dixon | 1951 | Album |
| Bicentenaire U.S.A Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 | John Philip Sousa, Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Ferde Grofé, Virgil Thomson, Howard Hanson, Robert Russell Bennett, George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Morton Gould, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Leroy Anderson | Compil. | |
| Sonata Tragica, Op. 45, Sonata Eroica, Op. 50 | Edward MacDowell | Album | |
| Concerto No. 2 For Piano And Orchestra In D Minor / Selections From Woodland Sketches | Edward MacDowell | Album | |
| The Willow Plate Suite / Woodland Sketches | Victor Herbert, Edward MacDowell | Album | |
| Suite For Large Orchestra / Suite No. 2 "Indian" | Edward MacDowell - Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, Howard Hanson | Album | |
| Indian Suite, Poem For Flute And Orchestra, The Portrait Of A Lady | Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Taylor | Album | |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 23/Suite, From The Ballet | Edward MacDowell | Album | |
| Piano Concerto No. 2 In D Minor, Op. 23 Sonata No. 4 For Piano "keltic," Op. 59 Woodland Sketches, Op. 52 | Edward MacDowell | Album | |
| Piano Music Of Edward MacDowell | Edward MacDowell, John Kirkpatrick | Album | |
| Basic Library Of The World's Greatest Music | Joseph Haydn, Edward MacDowell | Album |
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