Charles Martin Loeffler
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Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler was a German-born American violinist, composer, and viola d'amore player.
Portrait of Charles Martin Loeffler by John Singer Sargent, 1903
John Jay Chapman
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John Jay Chapman was an American writer and lawyer. He was most known for his essays and poetry.
Charles Martin Loeffler
…Four Stringed Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano. The Music for Four Stringed Instruments was written in 1917 after his friend John Jay Chapman's son Victor became the first American aviator to die in World War I. Chapman published his son's letters in 1917 and Loeffler was inspired to write…
John Jay Chapman, 1899
Portrait of Chapman's second wife, Elizabeth Astor Winthrop Chanler (1866-1937), by John Singer Sargent.