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Eleanor Everest Freer
American composer and philanthropist
Eleanor Freer | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()May 14, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | December 13, () (aged&#;78) Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, teacher, composer |
Eleanor Everest Freer (14 May – 13 Dec ) was an American composer and philanthropist.
Life
Eleanor Everest was born in Philadelphia, the daughter of Cornelius Everest and Ellen Amelia (Clark) Everest, and studied singing in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi and composition with Benjamin Godard. She taught music in Philadelphia and New York City, and married Chicago doctor Archibald Freer in The couple had one daughter and moved to Chicago in , where Eleanor Freer studied music theory with Bernard Ziehn.[1] In , she received a from the Boguslawski College of Music.[2]
Freer was an active advocate for American opera, and opera sung in English.
To this end, she helped to found the Opera in Our Language Foundation (OOLF) in , and the David Bispham Memorial Fund in to promote concerts of American composers' works and award a Bispham Medal.
Eleanor everet biography wikipedia Alan Watts was thrice married. In , he met Eleanor Everett at the Buddhist Lodge and got married in April Their eldest daughter Joan was born in November and the younger daughter Anne inThe two organizations merged in to become the American Opera Society of Chicago.[3][4][5]
Freer's one-act opera The Legend of the Piper was performed numerous times by the American Opera Company from through She died in Chicago in [6]
Works
Freer composed eleven operas and more than songs, many of which were published in collections.
Selected works include:
- A Book of Songs, op. 4 (9 songs)
- Five Songs to Spring
- Four Songs
- Six Songs to Nature
- Sonnets from the Portuguese (44 songs)
- The Brownings Go to Italy
- Massimiliano, or The Court Jester, Romantic Opera in One Act
- The Legend of the Piper, opera
- Little Women, opera