biography
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Paine, John Knowles
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| male
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| lived:
| (1839–1906)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Portland, Maine, USA. After training in Germany (1857–61), he returned to take up at Harvard the first chair of music in an American university (1862–1905). One of the ‘Boston Classic’ school, he composed high-toned music in a European style, such as his Symphony No 2 (1880). |
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