Horace Johnson Scores, JPB 84-58, Music Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
Horace Johnson Scores represent most of the compositional output of an American music critic.
Horace Johnson was an American music critic and composer.
He was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, October 5, 1893. His mother had been a concert singer. He studied piano with Marie Kieckhofer and Ulysse Buhler at the Berkshire School, 1911-13, theory, piano, and organ with John P. Marshall of Boston University, 1914-16, and composition with Bainbridge Crist of Boston, 1914-18. He completed his musical education with four years of study in France and England. In 1923 he married author Helen Redington.
Johnson was assistant editor of the Musical Observer, and later became managing editor of the Musical Courier for eight years (1930-1938). He also held positions for The Etude, The Musician, The Talking Machine Journal, Musical America, and music editor of The Delineator.
Johnson was appointed director of the Works Progress Administration Music Project and began his duties at the end of May, 1939, which lasted at least two years.
Johnson was known mostly for the many songs he composed, a number of which were performed by Alice Tully.
Horace Johnson died in Tucson, Arizona, on May 30, 1964.
The Horace Johnson scores contains a number of Johnson's works, in particular his orchestral music. Though he composed numerous songs, they were not part of the collection.
Works are arranged alphabetically by title.
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