Artist Profile: Johanna Beyer
by sarah - February 24, 2011.Filed under: academia, composers, resources. Tagged as: Charles Seeger, Henry Cowell, Johanna Beyer, Library of Congress, New York Public Library, Ruth Crawford Seeger.
The Performing Arts Department of the Library of Congress publishes a semi-regular blog titled In the Muse. The blog has great information featuring items that are held in D.C. and are available for perusal.
A Music Cataloger at the LOC, Laura Yust, was a recent guest-blogger and profiled Johanna Beyer (1888-1944). Please do read the full post available here. Though Beyer’s papers are at the New York Public Library (the finding aid is here), her presence can be found at the LOC through her interactions with teachers, mentors, and peers. Beyer was a student of Ruth Crawford, Charles Seeger, and Henry Cowell.
Image from: http://blogs.loc.gov/music/2011/02/johanna-beyer-a-composer-forgotten/
Yust also provided readers with a link to more resources for those interested in finding out more about this little-talked about modernist composer.
Below is a video a performance of Beyer’s Music of the Spheres (1938).