John Knowles Paine
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John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one
John Knowles Paine
John Knowles Paine by Caroline Cranch c. 1885
George Whitefield Chadwick
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George Whitefield Chadwick was an American composer. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called th
John Knowles Paine
…significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker. Paine grew up in a musical family in Maine. His grandfather, an instrument maker, built the first pipe organ in the state of Maine…
George Whitefield Chadwick, c. 1890–1910