Franz Bornschein
{{Short description|American composer, teacher and music critic (1879–1948)}}
Franz Carl Bornschein (February 10, 1879 – June 8, 1948) was an American composer, teacher, and music critic. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, later becoming a professor there. He also served for a time as the music critic of the Baltimore Evening Sun. His wife, Hazel Knox, was a singer who taught at Peabody. Much of Bornschein's output is orchestral, including a number of suites as well as a violin concerto; he also wrote a good deal of chamber music, some songs, and some works for choir which won a handful of prizes. In larger forms, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, and operettas.
Bornschein died in 1948; his papers are held at the library of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
Selected compositions
- Joy, choral setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter, joint winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs' 1943 choral composition contest.{{Cite journal |date=February 1, 1943 |title=Award to Miss Kettering with Bornschein in Contest |url=https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/194302TheDiapason.pdf |journal=The Diapason |volume=34 |issue=3 |page=12 |access-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-date=October 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031193931/https://www.thediapason.com/sites/thediapason/files/194302TheDiapason.pdf |url-status=dead }}
References
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- {{cite book |last= Howard|first= John Tasker|title= Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It|year= 1939|publisher= Thomas Y. Crowell Company|location= New York}}
External links
- [https://mdhistory.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/394 Bornschein papers at the MHS]
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Category:American male composers
Category:Musicians from Baltimore
Category:Place of death missing
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