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1studied music with Eugene Thayer in Boston; then became head of the music department at Olivet College in Michigan (1876); from 1877-8 studied at the Leipzig Cons. with Reinecke and Jadassohn; his graduation piece was an overture to Rip Van Winkle, which he conducted with the Leipzig Cons. Orch. on June 20, 1879; then studied organ and composition at Munich under Rheinberger; in 1880 returned to Boston as organist of the South Congregational Church and teacher of harmony and composition at the New England Cons.; in 1897 succeeded Faelten as director. He received the honorary degree of M.A. from Yale, and an honorary LL.D. from Tufts College in 1905; received the Gold Medal of the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1928; for several seasons was conductor of the Worcester Music Festival; also head of music festivals in Springfield and Worcester, Mass.; was a member of the Boston Academy of Arts and Letters. Chadwick was one of the leading American composers; usually regarded as a pillar of the 'Boston Classicists', he was actually an ardent romanticist; his musical style was formed under the influence of the German programmatic school; his harmonies are Wagnerian, his orchestration full and lush. A list of his chief works follows: For the stage: the comic operas The Quiet Lodging (privately performed, Boston, 1892) and Tabasco (Boston, Jan. 29, 1894); Judith, lyric drama (Worcester Festival, Sept. 26, 1901); The Padrone (1915), opera; Love's Sacrifice, pastoral opretta (1916); incidental music to Everywoman (N. Y. and London, 1911). For orch.: three symphonies: I, in C; II, in Bb (Boston Symph., Dec. 11, 1886); III, in F (Boston Symph., Oct. 20, 1894); the overtures Rip Van Winkle, Thalia, The Miller's Daughter, Melpomene (Boston, Dec. 24, 1887; also arranged for piano 4 hands), Adonais (Boston, Feb. 3, 1900), Euterpe (Boston Symph., April 23, 1904; composer cond.), and Anniversary Overture (Norfolk Festival, 1922); Serenade in F for string orch.; A Pastoral Prelude (Boston, 1894); Sinfonietta in D (Boston, Nov. 21, 1904); the symphonic poems Cleopatra (Worcester Festival, 1905) and Angel of Death (N. Y., 1919); Symphonic Sketches, suite (Jubilee, Noël, Hobgoblin, and A Vagrom Ballad; Boston Symph., Feb. 7, 1908); Theme, Variations and Fugue for organ and orch. (Boston, 1908; arranged by J. Wallace Goodrich for organ solo); Suite symphonique (Philadelphia, 1911; first prize of the National Federation of Music Clubs); Aphrodite, symph. fantasy (Norfolk Festival, 1912); Tam O'Shanter, symph. ballad (Norfolk Festival, 1915). Choral works: Dedication Ode (1886) for soli, chorus and orch.; Lovely Rosabelle, ballad for solo, chorus and orch. (Boston, 1889); The Pilgrims for chorus and orch. (Boston, 1891); Ode for the Opening of the Chicago World's Fair, for chorus with piano or orch. (1892); Phoenix Expirans, for soli, chorus and orch. (Springfield Festival, 1892); The Lily Nymph, cantata (1893); Lochinvar, for baritone and orch. (Springfield Festival, 1897); Noël, Christmas pastoral for soli, chorus and orch. (Norfolk Festival, 1908); Aghadoe, ballad for alto and orch.; numerous sacred works: Ecce jam noctis (Yale, 1897); The Beatitudes; Jubilate; etc.; many choruses for men's, women's, and mixed voices; also school choruses. Chamber music: 5 string quartets (I, in G minor; II, in C; III, in D; IV, in E minor; V, in D minor); piano quintet (1888); violin and cello pieces; etc. He composed about 100 songs with piano, organ or orch. (Allah, Ballad of the Trees and Masters, The Danza, Before the Dawn, etc.). Organ works: 10 Canonic Studies for Organ (1885); Progressive Pedal Studies for Organ (1890); miscellaneous pieces (Requiem, Suite in Variation Form, etc.); also numerous piano pieces. He was the author of Harmony, A Course of Study (Boston, 1897; revised ed., 1922) and Key to the Textbook on Harmony (Boston, 1902); was co-editor of A Book of Choruses for High Schools and Choral Societies (N. Y., 1923). For a full list of works, dates of composition, performance and publication, see C. Engel, G. W. Chadwick, in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (July, 1924); also A. L. Langley, Chadwick and the New England Conservatory, in the 'Mus. Quarterly' (Jan., 1935).
3Chaffin, Lucien Gates, American organist and composer; b. Worcester, Mass., March 23, 1846; d. New York, May 26, 1927. He studied at Brown Univ. (graduated, 1867); was active as a language teacher; studied music in Boston with Eugene Thayer; was organist in various churches in Boston, Buffalo and New York; was music editor of the Buffalo 'Express' (1879-83) and the N. Y. 'Commercial Advertiser' (1884-90); lectured on music and contributed articles to various musical publications. He composed a cantata, Holy Night; many pieces for organ and piano; songs; made numerous arrangements for church of works by Grieg, Cornelius, Poldini, etc.; published a manual, Song-writing and Song-making (N. Y., 1923).
5Chaikovsky. See Tchaikovsky.
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