In 1896, Marian MacDowell purchased Hillcrest Farm, to serve as their summer residence in Peterborough, New Hampshire. MacDowell composed some music for the group to perform. In addition to composing and teaching, from 1896 to 1898 he directed the Mendelssohn Glee Club. He was personally invited to Columbia University by its president Seth Low to create a music department. The MacDowells lived in Boston until 1896, when Edward was appointed professor of music at Columbia University, the first music professor in the university's history. He performed in recitals with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other American musical organizations. He made Boston his new home, where he became well known as a concert pianist and piano teacher. That brought financial difficulties, and he decided to return to the United States in the autumn of 1888. From 1885 to 1888 MacDowell devoted himself almost exclusively to composition. In Germany, the MacDowells settled first in Frankfurt, then in Darmstadt, and finally, in Wiesbaden. About the time that MacDowell composed a piano piece titled Cradle Song, Marian suffered an illness that resulted in her being unable to bear children. In 1884, MacDowell married Marian Griswold Nevins, an American who had been one of his piano students in Frankfurt for three years. He taught piano in Darmstadt during 1881–1884, including at the Schmitt's Akademie für Tonkunst (now known as the Akademie für Tonkunst), and in Wiesbaden, 1884–1888. Īfter finishing his studies in 1881, MacDowell remained for a while in Germany, where he composed, performed on stage and gave piano lessons. 10 to Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein for performance and also introduced him to Leipzig music publishers at Breitkopf & Härtel. Liszt recommended MacDowell's First Modern Suite, Op. Next year, he paid a visit to Liszt in Weimar and performed some of his own compositions. 44 along with a transcription of a Liszt symphonic poem. When Franz Liszt and Clara Schumann visited the conservatory in early 1880 and attended a recital of student compositions, MacDowell performed Robert Schumann's Quintet, Op. Hoch's Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany, where he studied piano with Carl Heymann and composition with Joachim Raff. Īfter two years of studies under Antoine François Marmontel and being at the top of his class, he continued his education at Dr. MacDowell's mother decided to take her son to Paris, France, where in 1877 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory after receiving a competitive scholarship for international students.
He also received music lessons from friends of Buitrago, including the Cuban pianist Pablo Desverine and Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño.
He received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time. Edward MacDowell was born in New York City to Thomas MacDowell, a Manhattan milk dealer, and Frances “Fanny” Mary Knapp.
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