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3 unusual facts about Edward MacDowell


Abbie Farwell Brown

Brown's only juvenile biography was of a composer, The Boyhood of Edward MacDowell (1924).

East 73rd Street Historic District

Pulitzer's estate sold the carriage house at 166 to the MacDowell Club, named after composer and pianist Edward MacDowell, after his death.

Idyll

The term is used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life such as Edward MacDowell's Forest Idylls, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment (divertissement) of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing.



see also

Edward MacDowell Medal

The Edward MacDowell Medal is a prize awarded annually by the MacDowell Colony of Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts.