Edward Ballantine

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Edward Ballantine (August 6, 1886 – July 2, 1971), was an American composer and professor of music.

Biography

Edward Ballantine was born in

Boalt Hall School of Law.[2] Through his paternal grandfather, Rev. Elisha Ballantine,[3] he is distantly related to four U.S. Presidents, and descended from the first American female writer Anne Bradstreet, and from Massachusetts Bay Colony founder and first Governor John Winthrop.[4]

Education and career

He studied with Walter Spalding and

Rudolf Ganz, and Philippe Rüferthen in Berlin from 1907 to 1909. He returned to the United States where he joined the Harvard music faculty in 1912, where he remained until his retirement in 1947. His best-known compositions are two sets of piano variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (1924, 1943), in which each variation is in the style of a different composer.[6]

Marriage

In 1923 he married, as her second husband, Florence Foster Besse,

Kingman Brewster, Jr., who was an educator, diplomat, and president of Yale University
.

Death

He died on July 2, 1971, at his home at Vineyard Haven, a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States.[11]

References

  • Arzuni, Sahan. 1994. "An American Jester". Keyboard Classics & Piano Stylist 14, no. 5:54–56.
  • Cutter, W.R. (1910). Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts0. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company.
  • Kabaservice, Geoffrey. 2004. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
    ISBN 0-8050-6762-0; 53145580

Footnotes

  1. ^ "RG 2/4 – William Gay Ballantine (1848–1937): Biography". Oberlin College Archives. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  2. ^ "University of California: In Memoriam, 1951 - Henry Winthrop Ballantine, Law: Berkeley and Hastings". callsphere - University of California. 1951. Retrieved March 16, 2021.
  3. ^ Beaver. 2003. "Rev Elisha Ballantine". Findagrave (accessed May 16, 2019).
  4. ^ Earle, Alice Morse. 1895. Margaret Winthrop. New York: C. Scribner's Sons. p. 332.
  5. ^ Oberlin Alumni Association (November 1907). Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Vol. 4. p. 78.
  6. ISBN 9780195170672
    .
  7. ^ "Mrs. Florence Ballantine, Mother of Yale's Brewster". The New York Times. April 5, 1974. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
  8. ^ Kabaservice 2004, p. 16
    Cutter 1910, pp. 2105–7.
  9. ^ Kabaservice 2004, pp. 16–7.
  10. ^ Kabaservice 2004, p. 17.
  11. ^ "Edward Ballantine, Composer Who Taught at Harvard, Dies". The New York Times. July 4, 1971. Retrieved May 16, 2019.

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