Carl Engel

{{Short description|American pianist & composer (1883-1944)}}

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Carl Engel (July 21, 1883 – May 6, 1944{{cite journal |last1= Strunk |first1= Oliver |last2= Reese |first2= Gustave |last3= Spivacke |first3= Harold |last4= N. Waters |first4= Edward |date= October 1945 |title= Carl Engel (July 21, 1883-May 6, 1944) |url= https://online.ucpress.edu/jams/article-abstract/doi/10.2307/829372/94912/Carl-Engel-July-21-1883-May-6-1944 |journal= Bulletin of the American Musicological Society |volume= 8 |issue= 8 |pages= 1–2 |doi= 10.2307/829372|jstor= 829372 |url-access= subscription }}) was a French-born American pianist, composer, musicologist and publisher from Paris. He was also president of G. Schirmer, Inc., a writer on music for The Musical Quarterly, and chief of the Music Division of the Library of Congress.

Compositions

=Voice and Piano=

  • Three Lyrics from the German; G. Saerchinger, 1906
  • We Met; W. Maxwell, 1907
  • Four Lyrics by C. Fabbri; G. Schirmer, 1908
  • Chansons intimes; G. Schirmer, 1910
  • Two Lyrics; G. Schirmer, 1911
  • Deux simples chansons; Boston Music Co., 1912
  • Trois epigrammes; G. Schirmer, 1914
  • Trois sonnets; G. Schirmer, 1914
  • Christmas Call; Boston Music Co., 1916
  • Three Songs; C. Fischer, 1917
  • We're In It: And We'll Win It; C. C. Birchard, 1918
  • The Never-Lonely Child; Boston Music Co., 1919
  • Three Poems of Amy Lowell; G. Schirmer, 1922

=Violin and Piano=

  • Chant Nuptial; C. Fischer, 1917
  • Triptych; Boston Music Co., 1920
  • Chanson frivole; G. Schirmer, 1922

=Piano=

  • Perfumes; C. Fischer, 1917
  • Presque valse; G. Schirmer, 1946

=Choir=

  • Dawn; C. C. Birchard, 1915
  • God Rest Our Glorious Land; C. C. Birchard, 1932
  • Lisette; Choudens, 1935
  • Charms of Love; Boston Music Co., 1939

=Wind Band=

  • For Honor and For Home; C. Fischer, 1917
  • Academic Processional March; G. Schirmer, 1938

=Operetta=

  • Way Down South in Dixie; C. C. Birchard, 1924

Works

  • "Alla breve, from Bach to Debussy" (New York: G. Schirmer, 1921) {{ISBN|0-8369-1919-X}} — short biographies of great composers

References

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  • {{cite journal|last=Bauer|first=Harold|authorlink=Harold Bauer|volume=30|issue=3|title=Carl Engel 21 July 1883--6 May 1944|journal=The Musical Quarterly|

pages=249–254|date=July 1944|doi=10.1093/mq/XXX.3.249|issn=0027-4631|jstor=739473}}