Edward Ballantine
Edward Ballantine (August 6, 1886 – July 2, 1971), was an American composer and professor of music.
Biography
Education and career
He studied with Walter Spalding and Frederick Converse at Harvard University, where he received a BA in 1907. He was awarded highest final honors in music at Harvard University and an orchestral composition of his was played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1907.[1] He then pursued his studies with Artur Schnabel, Rudolf Ganz, and Philippe Rüferthen in Berlin from 1907 to 1909. He returned to the United States where he joined the Harvard music faculty in 1912, where he remained until his retirement in 1947. His best-known compositions are two sets of piano variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (1924, 1943), in which each variation is in the style of a different composer.[2]
Marriage
In 1923 he married, as her second husband, Florence Foster Besse,[3] a childhood friend and the daughter of Henrietta Louisa Segee and Lyman W. Besse, who owned an extensive chain of clothing stores in the Northeast known as "The Besse System".[4] She was a 1907 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College.[5] She had married as her first husband, Kingman Brewster, Sr. They separated in 1923 and were later divorced.[6] They were the parents of Kingman Brewster, Jr., who was an educator, diplomat, and president of Yale University.
Death
He died on July 2, 1971, at his home at Vineyard Haven, a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.[7]
References
- Arzuni, Sahan. 1994. "An American Jester". Keyboard Classics & Piano Stylist 14, no. 5:54–56.
- Cutter, W.R. (1910). Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts0. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
- Kabaservice, Geoffrey. 2004. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. New York: Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0-8050-6762-0; 53145580
Footnotes
- ↑ Oberlin Alumni Association (November 1907). Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Vol. 4. p. 78.
- ↑ Hitchcock, H. Wiley; Meckna, Michael (2001). "Ballantine, Edward". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. ISBN 9780195170672.
- ↑ "Mrs. Florence Ballantine, Mother of Yale's Brewster". The New York Times. April 5, 1974. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- ↑ Kabaservice 2004, p. 16
Cutter 1910, pp. 2105–7. - ↑ Kabaservice 2004, pp. 16–7.
- ↑ Kabaservice 2004, p. 17.
- ↑ "Edward Ballantine, Composer Who Taught at Harvard, Dies". The New York Times. July 4, 1971. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
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- Jones, Howard Mumford. "Mary Had a Little Lamb (December 1950)". Quodlibet website (Accessed February 23, 2010)
- 20th-century American classical composers
- American male classical composers
- Composers for violin
- Composers for piano
- 1886 births
- 1971 deaths
- People from Oberlin, Ohio
- Harvard College alumni
- Harvard University faculty
- People from Tisbury, Massachusetts
- Classical musicians from Massachusetts
- Classical musicians from Ohio
- 20th-century American male musicians