AMY BEACH

CHILDHOOD

• She started studying piano at age six
• She also could play Chopin by Betoven at age seven
• She was born in New Hampshire
• She memorized forty of her moms hymns at one, and could waltz at three

CHILDHOOD

• She taught herself how to read music at age three
• She was a child prodigy
• She started playing piano with her mom at six years old

GROWING AND LEARNING

• Her mom didn’t let her play the family piano
• Amy started telling people what they could play
• She performed in the final performance of Boston Symphony

FAMILY

• Her mom Marcy
• her husband henery beach
• She had no kids
• Father Charles

SCHOOL

• Amy enrolled in a private school in Boston
• She studied piano, theory, composition, and taught herself orchestration and fudge

DREAMING OP.15, NO.

• https://youtu.be/6DbvoXvRf4k

BALLADE OP. 6

• https://youtu.be/i33sx01d34k

GAELIC SYMPHONY

• https://youtu.be/nnYtZD3sldw
• It was the first symphony composed and published by an American woman
• The piece debuted in Boston in 1896 on October 30

FUN FACTS

• Her husband died and then seven months later her mom died
• She traveled to try to recover from her losses

DEATH

• Amy beach died December 27 1944 in New York
• She died from a heart ailment which is an infection on the heart somewhere

FUN FACTS

• The fist song she ever composed she made in her head
• She played her first pieces to poems she liked
• Her husband didn’t want her to perform very much so when he died she became really famous

WEBSITES

• Libretto of Congress/ loc.gov
• Wikipedia