Piano music

Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, Amy Beach, Anton Rubinstein — 2001

A precociously talented pianist, Amy Beach was the first American woman to compose a symphonic work. This collection offers a rich selection of Beach's elegant, stylish miniatures for solo piano, including Ballad, Op. 6 and In Autumn, Dreaming, and Fire-Flies, Op. 15. Introduction by Adrienne Fried Block, an award-wining musicologist.