Arthur Farwell
American composer
Died when: 79 years 303 days (957 months)Star Sign: Aries
Arthur Farwell (April 23, 1872 – January 20, 1952) was an American composer, conductor, educationalist, lithographer, esoteric savant, and music publisher.Interested in American Indian music, he became associated with the Indianist movement and founded the Wa-Wan Press to publish music in this genre.
He combined teaching, composing and conducting in his career, working on both coasts and in Michigan.The American composer and critic A.
Walter Kramer identified Farwell as “probably the most neglected composer in our history - at the turn of the century no one wrote music with greater seriousness of purpose or fought harder for American music”.
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