Composers

William Mason

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Touch and Technic, Op.44Lullaby, Op.10Danse rustique, Op.16Ballade et barcarole, Op.15Toccata, Op.37Silver Spring, Op.6Etude de Concert, Op.9Amitié pour Amitié, Op.43 Characteristic Sketches, Op.353 Preludes, Op.8Scherzo and Novelette, Op.31Romance-étude, Op.32Memories of a Musical LifeRêverie Poétique, Op.24Spring Flower, Op.213 Valses de salon, Op.7Serenata for Cello and Piano, Op.39Valse de bravoure, Op.5Dance Antique, Op.38Romance-Idyl, Op.42Dance Caprice, Op.36Scherzo, Op.41Improvisation, Op.51Bittle-It PolkaSpring Dawn, Op.20Concert Galop, Op.11A Pastoral noveletteValse caprice, Op.17Ballade No.1, Op.12
Wikipedia
William Mason (January 24, 1829 – July 14, 1908) was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family. His father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music, and his younger brother, Henry Mason, was a co-founder of the piano manufacturers Mason and Hamlin.
Mason was born in Boston. After a successful debut at the Boston Academy of Music, he went to Europe in 1849; there he was the first American piano student of Franz Liszt and Ignaz Moscheles. He became the leader of a chamber ensemble based in New York that introduced many works of Robert Schumann and other famous Europeans to Americans during the Civil War era and beyond, at a time when classical music still had little specifically American identity.
Mason published numerous pedagogical works for the piano student, but is remembered above all for his Chopinesque compositions for piano. The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) dedicated his second piano sonata, Op. 50 Sonata Eroica (1895), to William Mason. He died in New York City, aged 79.