Arthur Foote
1853 — 1937
Arthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the “Boston Six.” The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.
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Arthur Foote, born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1853, was a notable American musician who studied piano with B. J. Lang and composition with S. A. Emery and J. K. Paine, earning an A.M. degree in music from Harvard in 1875, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Since 1878, he served as organist of the First Unitarian church in Boston. Foote’s published works include orchestral pieces such as the overture “In the Mountains” and the symphonic prologue “Francesca da Rimini,” along with a ‘cello concerto and suites for strings and full orchestra. He also composed for chorus and orchestra, including “The Wreck of the Hesperus” for mixed chorus, and a variety of chamber music, piano pieces, and some forty songs. Beyond his original compositions, Foote also contributed to music pedagogy, producing an American edition of Ernst Friedrich Eduard Richter’s “Lehrbuch der Fuge,” as recorded in the Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886). His influence extended to teaching, as Thomas Whitney Surette, a pupil of Foote, went on to become a staff-lecturer on music for the American Society for the Extension of University Teaching.