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As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners. Katherine K. Preston explores the life and works of a figure admired in his own time and credited today with producing the first American grand opera and composing important works that ranged from oratorios to symphonies to chamber music. Preston reveals Bristow's passion for creating and promoting music, his skills as a businessman and educator, the respect paid him by contemporaries and students, and his tireless work as both a composer and in-demand performer. As she examines Bristow against the backdrop of the music scene in New York City, Preston illuminates the little-known creative and performance culture that he helped define and create.
Vivid and richly detailed, George Frederick Bristow enriches our perceptions of musical life in nineteenth-century America.
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 ""The Life of a Musician: Troubles & Trials & Emergence as a Composer Interlude A Pedagogy I: Private Teaching Chapter 2 Fry and Willis: Bristow Becomes an Americanist Chapter 3 The 1850s: During Which Young Apollo Becomes a Jack-of-All-Trades and a Renowned Musician Interlude B Sacred Music: Church Music Director and Sacred Composer Chapter 4 The 1860s: Personal and National Agony and Triumph Interlude C Pedagogy II: Teaching in Schools Chapter 5 The 1870s: A Manly and Patriotica Composer of Native Independence and Originalitya Interlude D George Bristow as Businessman and Musical Authority Chapter 6 The Stalwart Educator and Composer Conclusion Notes Discography Works Cited Index
