Frederick Ayres
American composer
Frederick Ayres (born 17 March 1876; died 23 Nov 1926) was an American composer. Born in Binghamton, New York, he studied at Cornell University; further study, this time in music, came with Edgar Stillman Kelley and Arthur Foote. Ayres lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado for many years, during which time he became a "musical spokesman" for the Rocky Mountain area; he died there in 1926. Among his compositions were an overture, From the Plains; a string quartet and some other pieces of chamber music, and some songs.[1]
References
- ^ Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Further reading
- Upton, William Treat (January 1932). "Frederic Ayres (1876–1926)". The Musical Quarterly. 18 (1). Oxford University Press: 39–59. doi:10.1093/mq/xviii.1.39. JSTOR 739104.
External links
- Free scores by Frederick Ayres at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
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