November 13 - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow; George Whitefield Chadwick (The Musical Birthday Series)

Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow (bapt. 14, prob. born 13 November 1663  – 7 August 1712) was an important German organist and composer.

Debts

Friedrich Zachow had the luck

Of teaching G. F. Handel,

Who stole his tunes (he didn’t ask),

It should have been a scandal. 

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George Whitefield Chadwick (13 November 1854 – 4 April 1931) was on of the most respected American composers in the generation before Ives.

What’s in a Name

George Whitefield Chadwick

  Had a resounding name.

He learned his craft in Europe

  With teachers of acclaim.

And now he is forgotten,

  And isn’t that a shame?

  

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