Signed A. Marshall of Boston photograph of the influential American classical composer best known as a member of the 'Boston Six.' Silver gelatin photograph mounted to unidentified photographer's mount, stamped 193 to verso and signed in fountain pen ink by the subject "Arthur Foote" to verso. Very fine. 4.25 x 6.23 inches; 11 x 15.6 cm.
He was appointed organist of the First Church in Boston (Unitarian) in 1878, remaining there 32 years. A founder of the American Guild of Organists, he was one of the examiners at the 1st Guild Fellowship examination. He helped organize the New England chapter of the AGO, and from 1909-12 (when the office was discontinued) he served as National Honorary President of the AGO, succeeding Horatio Parker. He was one of the editors of “Hymns of the Church Universal”, a Unitarian hymnal published in 1890.
A Harvard graduate and the 1st noted American classical composer to be trained entirely in the US, Foote was an early advocate of Brahms and Wagner and promoted performances of their music. He was an active music teacher and wrote a number of pedagogical works, incl. “Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice” (1905), written with Walter R. Spalding, republished as “Harmony” (1969). He also wrote “Some Practical Things in Piano-Playing” (1909) and “Modulation and Related Harmonic Questions” (1919). He contributed many articles to music journals, including “Then and Now, Thirty Years of Musical Advance in America” in Etude (1913) and “A Bostonian Remembers” in Musical Quarterly (1937).
Signed A. Marshall of Boston photograph of the influential American classical composer best known as a member of the 'Boston Six.' Silver gelatin photograph mounted to unidentified photographer's mount, stamped 193 to verso and signed in fountain pen ink by the subject "Arthur Foote" to verso. Very fine. 4.25 x 6.23 inches; 11 x 15.6 cm.
He was appointed organist of the First Church in Boston (Unitarian) in 1878, remaining there 32 years. A founder of the American Guild of Organists, he was one of the examiners at the 1st Guild Fellowship examination. He helped organize the New England chapter of the AGO, and from 1909-12 (when the office was discontinued) he served as National Honorary President of the AGO, succeeding Horatio Parker. He was one of the editors of “Hymns of the Church Universal”, a Unitarian hymnal published in 1890.
A Harvard graduate and the 1st noted American classical composer to be trained entirely in the US, Foote was an early advocate of Brahms and Wagner and promoted performances of their music. He was an active music teacher and wrote a number of pedagogical works, incl. “Modern Harmony in Its Theory and Practice” (1905), written with Walter R. Spalding, republished as “Harmony” (1969). He also wrote “Some Practical Things in Piano-Playing” (1909) and “Modulation and Related Harmonic Questions” (1919). He contributed many articles to music journals, including “Then and Now, Thirty Years of Musical Advance in America” in Etude (1913) and “A Bostonian Remembers” in Musical Quarterly (1937).