Arthur H. Bird

Arthur Homer Bird (23 July 1856 – 22 December 1923) was an American composer, for many years resident in Germany. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he studied in Europe and spent a year at Weimar with Franz Liszt.[1] He composed a symphonic poem, Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5, and a Symphony in A major, Op. 8 (both in 1886); three orchestral suites; some works for wind instruments alone; some music for the ballet; a comic opera; and some chamber music; he was also commissioned by the Mason and Hamlin company to write a suite of short pieces for the reed organ.

Arthur H. Bird
Born
Arthur Homer Bird

(1856-07-23)23 July 1856
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Died22 December 1923(1923-12-22) (aged 67)
Berlin, Germany
OccupationComposer
Spouse(s)
Wilhelmine Waldemann
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(m. 1888)​
Signature

He married Wilhelmine Waldemann in Peterborough, England in 1888.[1]

Bird died while riding on a train in Berlin in 1923.[2]

References
  1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. IX. James T. White & Company. 1907. p. 387. Retrieved 16 November 2020 – via Google Books.
  2. Lachmund, Carl; Saffle, Michael (1995). Living with Liszt: From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882–1884. Pendragon Press. p. 295. ISBN 9780945193562. Retrieved 16 November 2020 – via Google Books.
  • Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.


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