8:00 PM, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 John Knowles Paine MASS IN D
An American composer, organist, and music teacher John Knowles Paine, b. Portland, Maine, Jan. 9, 1839, d. April 25, 1906, pioneered in the establishment of music as an academic discipline in the United States. His training and aesthetic outlook were German, and his own compositions were derivative of German models. He was, however, the first major American composer of large-scale orchestral works, and became a lecturer and recitalist in the Boston area and was appointed an instructor of music at Harvard in 1862. In 1875 the course became accredited, and he was made the nation's first full professor of music. Among his students were such notable American composers as Frederick Converse, Arthur Foote, and John Alden Carpenter. Paine's works include two symphonies, symphonic poems, choral works, a never-performed opera, chamber music, songs, and organ and piano pieces.
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