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Up for sale a RARE! "American Composer" Dudley Buck Hand Written Note.
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Dudley Buck (March 10,
1839 – October 6, 1909) was an American composer, organist, and writer on music. He published several books,
most notably the Dictionary of Musical Terms and Influence
of the Organ in History, which was published in New York City in 1882. He is best known today for his
organ composition, Concert Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner, Op. 23, which was later arranged into an orchestral
version. Born in Hartford, Connecticut,
Buck was the son of a merchant who gave him every opportunity to cultivate his
musical talents. After attending Trinity College,
for four years (1858–1862) he studied in Leipzig at the Leipzig Conservatory where
he was a pupil of Louis Plaidy. He then
pursued further studies in Dresden and Paris.
On returning to America he held positions of organist in Hartford, Chicago (1869), and Boston (1871). In 1875 Buck went
to New York City to
assist Theodore Thomas as conductor of orchestral concerts, and
from 1877 to 1902 was organist at Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn. By this time he had become well known as a composer.
His compositions included church music, a number Light of Asia (1886),
etc.), an unperformed grand opera Serâpis,
a comic opera Deseret (1880, survives only in
fragments), a symphonic overture Marmion, a symphony in E flat, and other orchestral and vocal works. Buck also taught
private music lessons throughout his career. Among his notable pupils
were Paul Ambrose, C. B. Hawley, William Howland, Daniel Protheroe, Harry Rowe Shelley, James Francis Cooke,
and Charles Sanford Skilton.
See: List of
music students by teacher: A to B#Dudley Buck.
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