Edward Macdowell

A book by Elizabeth Fry Page about Edward Alexander MacDowell who was an American composer and pianist, best known for his second piano concerto and his piano suites Woodland Sketches, Sea Pieces, and New England Idyls. Besides his own compositions, which include two piano concertos, two orchestral suites, four symphonic poems, four piano sonatas, piano suites, and songs, MacDowell published dozens of piano transcriptions of mostly eighteenth-century pre-piano keyboard pieces. From 1896 to 1898,