biography
| name: |
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson
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pronunciation:
[grifuhs]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1920)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Elmira, New York, USA. After beginning his music studies in the USA, he studied piano and composition in Berlin, returning in 1907 to teach in a boy's school in Tarrytown, NY, where he remained until his early death. Developing slowly and composing painstakingly, he had begun to achieve a highly colourful and personal style in such works as Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (1920). He is remembered as the great ‘might-have-been’ of American music. |
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