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Daniel Gregory Mason
1873–1953
Remembered as an American composer, critic, and teacher, he wrote warmly about music while also creating works shaped by the late-Romantic tradition. His background placed him in one of the best-known musical families in the United States, but he built his own reputation through teaching, essays, and composition.
5 Audiobooks
From Grieg to Brahms: Studies of Some Modern Composers and Their Art
by Daniel Gregory Mason
The Romantic Composers
by Daniel Gregory Mason
Beethoven and His Forerunners
by Daniel Gregory Mason
The Appreciation of Music - Vol. 1 (of 3)
by Thomas Whitney Surette, Daniel Gregory Mason
Contemporary Composers
by Daniel Gregory Mason
About the author
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1873, Daniel Gregory Mason was an American composer and music critic. He came from a deeply musical family: he was the grandson of Lowell Mason, the influential music educator, and the son of Henry Mason, a cofounder of the Mason & Hamlin piano company.
Mason studied at Harvard and continued his musical training in Boston, New York, and Paris. He became closely associated with Columbia University, where he taught music for many years, and he was also known for writing clearly and accessibly about listening, musical style, and major composers.
As a composer, he was often described as part of the conservative, German-influenced stream of American concert music, though his career also reflected a broad engagement with European and American traditions. He died in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1953, leaving behind both compositions and a substantial body of musical writing.