Franz Bornschein
Franz Carl Bornschein (February 10, 1879 – June 8, 1948) was an American composer, teacher, and music critic based in Baltimore. Franz Bornschein was born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He later became a professor there.
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Franz Bornschein
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- 1879
- Died
- 1948
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- United States
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- composer
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He also served for a time as the music critic of the Baltimore Evening Sun. He also taught violin at Baltimore's Western High School. Among his students was Ruth Krauss. His wife, Hazel Knox, was a singer who taught in 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. Some of his music was published under the pseudonym Frank Fairfield. Bornschein died in 1948; his papers are held at the library of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
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Franz Bornschein, born on 2 October 1879 and died on 6 August 1948 in Baltimore, Maryland, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Both events are recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
• Joy, choral setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter, joint winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs' 1943 choral composition contest. • Emperor and the Nightingale, cantata • Independence Bell, cantata • King Nutcracker, a fantasy for chorus of women's voices and ballet, based on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite. • Seasons, a choral adaptation of Schubert • Tuscan Cypress, a cantata • The French Clock • Six French Folk Songs, in an arrangement for youth string orchestra and three-part treble voices.
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- 1.Nel, Philip. Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature. University Press of Mississippi. 2012. 978-1-61703-636-1.
- 2.Collection: Bornschein music manuscripts Maryland Center for History and Culture. mdhistory.libraryhost.com.
- 3.Award to Miss Kettering with Bornschein in Contest. The Diapason. 34. 3. 12. February 1, 1943.
- 4.on, Hope Jones. King Nutcracker: Music for Voice and Ballet. Unique at Penn. 2024-12-18.
- 5.Waln, George. Review of Twenty-Four Exercises for the Flute, Op. 33. Music Educators Journal. 28. 5. 42–42. 1942. 0027-4321.
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