Composer, pianist and music teacher Katherine Kennicott Davis is most noted for the Christmas song “The Little Drummer Boy” (1941) and the Thanksgiving hymn “Let All Things Now Living”, written for her school choirs. She willed the proceeds from her works to the Wellesley College Music Department.
Claude Debussy b. 8-22-1862; Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France d. 3-25-1918; Paris (cancer)
Claude Debussy, one of the most important composers in the the late 19th and early 20th centuries, lead the transition from late Romantic to modernist music.
The cultural movements of his time were Impressionism in painting and symbolism in literature.
FYI ~ Debussy set many of Paul Verlaine's poems to music.
Leo Delibes b. 2-21-1836; Saint-Germain-du-Val, France d. 1-16-1891: Paris
Composer of ballets, operas, and other works for the stage, Leo Delibes' most notable works include ballets Coppélia (1870) and Sylvia (1876) as well as the operas Le roi l'a dit (1873) and Lakmé (1883).
The Divertissement - Pizzicato from Sylvia is recognizable to the general public. Internet Archive
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor: Mad Scene (Sutherland-Covent Garden 1959). Internet Archive
FYI ~ One of noted soprano Beverly Sills signature roles was in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.
Riccardo Drigo
Riccardo Drigo b. 6-30-1846; Padua, Italy
d. 4-8-1848 Padua
Riccardo Drigo is best remembered as spending most of his career as the music director of the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg, composing original works and ballet revivals with choreographers Marius Pepita.
Among his original scores are the ballets Harlequinade (AKA Les Millions d'Arlequin) and Le Talisman.
Guillaume Dufay b. 8-5-1397; Belgium
d. 11-27-1474; Cambrai, France
Early Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay was the most famous and influential musicians in Europe in the mid-15th century. He is noted for his “gift for memorable and singable melod(ies).”
Guillaume Dufay: Cantilena Flos florum, Antioch College Chorus, 1975. Internet Archive
John Dunstaple is one of the most influential composers in history, active in the late medieval and early Renaissance period. Very little is known of his life and many of his works were destroyed during the Reformation.
Antonín Leopold Dvorák b. 9-8-1841; Nelahozeves, Austrian Empire (today Czech Republic)
d. 5-1-1904 (stroke)
Antonín Leopold Dvorák is noted for using the folk musics of Moravia and his native Bohemia in his compositions.
Dvorak was also music director for the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892-1895. It was at the conservatory that Dvorak met student Harry Burleigh who introduced Dvorak to traditional American spirituals, a influence that can be heard in his Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World. Will Marion Cook was also Dvorak's student.
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