Romance, Op.23, by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
Transcribed for Flute and Piano by C. A. Vater (originally for violin and piano)
Piano Score and Flute Part, PDF $8.99
Amy Marcy Cheney, who used Mrs. H. H. A. Beach as her professional name after marrying a Boston physician, began composing music at the age of four; throughout her lifetime she wrote more than 150 numbered works spanning a variety of genres. Her pieces were received with great acclaim, and she became one of America’s leading composers and the first American woman composer to achieve widespread recognition in the United States and abroad. She was also a renowned concert pianist. Beach composed her Romance for Violin and Piano in 1893 for the occasion of the Women’s Musical Congress held the same year in Chicago during the World’s Columbian Exposition. The piece was dedicated to the celebrated violinist Maud Powell, who joined Beach for the premiere performance at that Congress. Highly romantic, melodic, charming, and passionate, the Romance is also technically complex yet graceful. With a few modifications of the violin line, this gorgeous piece works nicely on flute; we provide both our NSM transcribed flute part and a score for flute and piano.
Score, 8 pages; Flute part, 2 pages; Total, 14 pages.
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