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Franz Carl Bornschein (February 10, 1879 – June 8, 1948) was an American composer, teacher, and music critic based in Baltimore.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. He later became a professor there. He also served for a time as the music critic of the Baltimore Evening Sun. He also taught violin at Baltimore's Western High School. Among his students was Ruth Krauss.[1]
His wife, Hazel Knox, was a singer who taught at Peabody.
Much of Bornschein's output is orchestral, including a number of suites as well as a violin concerto; he also wrote a good deal of chamber music, some songs, and some works for choir which won a handful of prizes. In larger forms, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, and operettas. Some of his music was published under the pseudonym Frank Fairfield.[2]
Bornschein died in 1948; his papers are held at the library of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore.
Selected compositions
[edit]- Joy, choral setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter, joint winner of the National Federation of Music Clubs' 1943 choral composition contest.[3]
- Emperor and the Nightingale, cantata
- Independence Bell, cantata
- King Nutcracker, a fantasy for chorus of women's voices and ballet, based on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite.[4]
- Seasons, a choral adaptation of Schubert
- Tuscan Cypress, a cantata
- The French Clock[5]
- Six French Folk Songs, in an arrangement for youth string orchestra and three-part treble voices.
References
[edit]- ↑ Nel, Philip (2012). Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-61703-636-1.
- ↑ "Collection: Bornschein music manuscripts | Maryland Center for History and Culture". mdhistory.libraryhost.com. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
- ↑ "Award to Miss Kettering with Bornschein in Contest" (PDF). The Diapason. 34 (3): 12. February 1, 1943. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 31, 2022. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
- ↑ on, Hope Jones (2024-12-18). "King Nutcracker: Music for Voice and Ballet". Unique at Penn. Retrieved 2026-03-30.
- ↑ Waln, George (1942). "Review of Twenty-Four Exercises for the Flute, Op. 33". Music Educators Journal. 28 (5): 42–42. doi:10.2307/3388684. ISSN 0027-4321.
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
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