COMPOSER MEMBERS Paul Hastings Allen, Nov 28, 1883, Hyde Park—Sep 28, 1952, Boston (1912-1952)* T(homas) J. Anderson, b. Aug 17, 1928, Coatesville, PA (1976-1996)** Richard Gilmore Appel, Apr 25, 1889, Lancaster, PA—Nov 18, 1975, Cambridge (1920-?) Richard E. Applin, b. Aug 11, 1951, Everett, (2001-) Percy Lee Atherton, Sep 25, 1871, Boston—Mar 8, 1944, Atlantic City (1896-1944)* Edward Ballantine, Aug 6, 1886, Oberlin, OH—Jul 2, 1971, Oak Bluffs, Martha’s Vineyard (1913-1971)* John Alexander Bavicchi, b. Apr 25, 1922, Dedham (1964-)** John Parson Beach, Oct 11, 1877, Gloversville, NY—Nov 6, 1953, Pasadena, CA (1922-1953?) Wheeler Martin Alfred Beckett, 7 Mar 1898, San Francisco, CA—25 Jan 1986, Philadelphia, PA (1937-1948) Francis Boott, Jun 24, 1813, Boston—Mar 2, 1904, Boston* (1839-1893) Thomas Ginnel Boss, b. October 14, 1949, Brooklyn, NY (2008-) Josiah Bradlee, Dec 17, 1837—Sep 10, 1902 (1864-1902)* Obadiah Bruen Brown, a.k.a. Ernest Leslie, 1829, Washington, DC—1901, Boston (1889-1897) John Duncan Buckingham, May 17, 1855, Huntington, PA—d. ? (1914-?) George Albert Burdett, 1856, Boston—1943 (1920-?) Francis Bullard, d. 1913 (1895-?)* Charles Lemuel Capen, Feb 9, 1850, Dedham—1902 (1880-1888) Elliot Cook Carter, b. Dec 11, 1908, New York, NY (2008-)* George Whitefield Chadwick, Nov 13, 1854, Lowell—Apr 4, 1931, Boston* (1881-1931)* Theodore Ward Chanler, Apr 29, 1902, Newport, RI—Jul 27, 1961, Boston (1934-1961)* John Hale Chipman, 1896—Sep 18, 1972 (1938-1972) Philip Greeley Clapp, Aug 4, 1888, Boston—Apr 9, 1954, Iowa City, IA (1914-1954) Chalmers Dancy Clifton, April 30, 1889, Jackson, MS—Jun 19, 1966, New York, NY (1916-?) Frederick Shepherd Converse, Jan 5, 1871, Newton—Jun 8, 1940, Westwood (1899-1940)* Christopher Pearse Cranch, Mar 8, 1813, Alexandria, D. C.— Jan 20, 1892, Cambridge (1839-1892) John Charlton Crawford, b. 1931, Philadelphia (1999-2003)* Arthur Mansfield Curry, Jan 27, 1886, Chelsea—Dec 30, 1953, Atlanta, GA (1909-?) Archibald Thompson Davison, Oct 11, 1883, Boston—Feb 6, 1961, Brant Rock (1913-?) John Hopkins Densmore, Aug 7, 1880, Somerville—Sep 21, 1943, Boston (1907-1912?)* Mark Bernard DeVoto, b. Jan 11, 1940, Cambridge (2002-) Otto Dresel, Dec 20, 1826, Geisenheim, Germany—Jul 26, 1890, Beverly (1862-1890)* Henry Morton Dunham, Jul, 29 1853, Brockton—May 4, 1929, Brookline (1883?-1929?) Julius Eichberg, 13 Jun 1824, Düsseldorf, Germany—Jan 19, 1893, Boston* (1880-1885) Carl Engel, Jul 21, 1883, Paris—May 6, 1944, New York (1914-1944)* William Silsbee Fenollosa, Dec 3, 1854, Salem—Feb 15, 1941 (1876-1893) Irving Gifford Fine, Dec 3, 1914, Boston—Aug 23, 1962, Boston (1945-1950)* William Arms Fisher, Apr 27, 1861, San Francisco—Dec 18, 1948, Boston (1908-1938)* Arthur William Foote, Mar 5, 1853, Salem—Apr 8, 1937, Boston* (1875-1937)* George Luther Foote, Feb 19, 1886, Cannes, France—Mar 25, 1956, Boston (1917-1956) Félix Fox, May 25, 1876, Breslau, Germany—March 24, 1947, Boston (1941-1947)* Lawrence G. Franko, Nov 3, 1942, Kingston, NY (1994-) Charles Clement Fussell, b. Feb 14, 1938, Winston-Salem (1996-2000)** Heinrich Gebhard, Jul 25, 1878, Bad Sobernheim, Germany—May 5, 1963, North Arlington, NJ (1924-1963)* Samuel Gilman, Feb 16, 1791, Gloucester—Feb 9, 1858, Kingston (1838-184?) (John) Wallace Goodrich, May 27, 1871, Newton—Jun 6, 1952 (189?-1952?) Peter Peabody Hazzard, b. Jan 31, 1949, Poughkeepsie, NY (1973-1983) William Clifford Heilman, Sep 27, 1877, Williamsport, PA—Dec 20, 1946, Williamsport, PA (1905-1946?)* (Isador Georg) George Henschel, Feb 18, 1850, Breslau, Prussia—Dec 10, 1934, Aviemore, Scotland (1883-1884)* Ernest Osgood Hiler, (? 1872) (1893-?)* Edward Burlingame Hill, Sep 9, 1872, Cambridge—Jul 9, 1960, Francestown, NH* (1898-1960)* Edward John Hopkins, Jun 30, 1818, Westminster, England—Feb 4, 1901, London, England (1858-1901?) Clayton Johns, Nov 24, 1857, New Castle, DE—Mar 5, 1932, Boston (1889-1893)* Franz Kneisel, Jan 26, 1865, Bucharest, Romania—Mar 26, 1926, New York, NY (1885-1903) Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky, Jul 26, 1874, Vyshny Volochyok, Tver Oblast—Jun 4, 1951, Boston (1942-1951)* Vance R. Koven, b. Jul 24, 1948, New York, NY (2010-) B(enjamin) J(ohnson) Lang, Dec 28, 1837, Salem—Apr 4, 1909, Boston* (1863-1909) Malcolm Burrage Lang, Jun 14, 1881, Lynn—Mar 7, 1972 (1906-1946) Hugo Leichtrentritt, Jan 1, 1874, Poznań, Prussia, Germany—Nov 13, 1951, Cambridge (1940-1951) Clair Leonard, 1901, Newton—d. ? (1927-?) Ernest Leslie (see Obadiah Bruen Brown) Leo Rich Lewis, Feb 11, 1865, South Woodstock, VT—Sep 8, 1945, Cambridge* (1889-1892, 1925-1945) John Adams Loud, Jun 10, 1876, Chelsea—1935? (1906-1935?)* John Herman Loud, Aug 26, 1873, Weymouth—d. ? (1904-?) Hamilton Crawford Macdougall, Oct 15, 1858, Warwick, RI—1945 (1903-?) Charles Fonteyn Manney, Feb 8, 1872, Brooklyn, NY—Oct 31, 1951, New York, NY (1906-1951?)* Frank Stewart Mason, 1883, Weymouth—1929, Boston (1920-?) David Thompson Watson McCord, 1897, New York, NY—Apr 13, 1997 (1933-1954) John D. McDonald, b. Oct 27, 1959 (2000-)** Robert Gorham Morse, Aug 23, 1874, Boston—1965 (1908-?) George Laurie Osgood, Apr 3, 1844, Chelsea—Dec 12, 1922, Godalming, Surry, England (1866-1907)* Thomas J. McGah, b. Apr 7, 1938, Waltham (1975-)** Edgar Allen Poe Newcomb, Apr 23, 1846, Boston—1924 (1886-1901) Charles Read Nutter, Nov 8, 1871, Boston—1965 (1893-1965) Henry Kemble Oliver, Nov 24, 1800, Beverly—Aug 12, 1885, Salem (1837-1845, 1863-1868, 1876-1885) Seiji Ozawa, Sep 1, 1935, Hoten, Manchuria (1979-) John Knowles Paine, Jan 9, 1839, Portland, ME—Apr 25, 1906, Cambridge* (1862-1890)* Horatio William Parker, Sep 15, 1863, Auburndale—Dec 18, 1919, Cedarhurst, NY (1893-1897)* J(ames) C(utler) D(unn) Parker, Jun 2, 1828, Boston—Nov 27, 1916, Brookline* (1849-1916) Lee Marion Pattison, Jul 22, 1890, Grand Rapids, WI—Dec 22, 1966, Claremont, CA (1916-?) Charles Callahan Perkins, Mar 1, 1823, Boston—Aug 25, 1886, Windsor, VT (1850-1886) Lawrence Ellis Phillips IV, b. Feb 2, 1948, Rosslyn, NY (2002-) Daniel (Rogers) Pinkham, Jun 5, 1923, Lynn—Dec 18, 2006, Natick (1943-1961)** Walter (Hamor) Piston, Jan 20, 1894, Rockland, ME—Nov 12, 1976, Belmont* (1928-1945)* Richard Barnes Platt, Jan 9, 1877, St. Louis, MO—? (1906-?)* Quincy Porter, Feb 7, 1897, New Haven—Nov 12, 1966, Bethany, CT (1940-1946)* Charles Brashear Repper, Jan 3, 1889, Alliance, OH—Oct 24, 1974, Boston (1916-1974)* Reginald Chauncy Robbins, Nov 10, 1871, Boston—1955 (1906-?) Augusto Rotoli, Jan 7, 1847, Rome, Italy—Nov 26, 1904, Boston (1901-1904) Elena Louise Ruehr, b. Aug 21, 1965, Ann Arbor, MI (2009-) John Anthony Schemmer, b. Aug 5, 1946, New York, NY (2000-) Sebastian Benzon Schlesinger, Sep 24, 1837, Hamburg, Germany—Jan 8, 1917, Nice, France (1871-1890)* Gunther Alexander Schuller, b. Nov 22, 1925, New York, NY (2008-)** Arthur Shepherd, Feb 19, 1880, Paris, Idaho—Jan 12, 1958, Cleveland (1914-1958) Gerald J. Siddons, Sep 30, 1939, Harrisburg, PA (1974-1993) Bruce T. Simonds, Jul 5, 1895, Bridgeport, CT—Jun 2, 1989, Hamden, CT (1960-1989) Henry Dike Sleeper, Oct 9, 1865, Patten, ME—Jan 28, 1948, Winter Park, FL (1914-?) Warren Storey Smith, Jul 14, 1885, Brookline—Oct 15, 1971, Framingham (1924-?) Lucien H. Southard, Feb 4, 1827, Sharon, VT—Jan 10, 1881, Augusta, GA (1856-1873) Walter Raymond Spalding, May 22, 1865, Northampton—Feb 10, 1962, Cambridge (1895-1962) Rowland Gibson Hazard Sturges, 1917, Rhode Island—Aug 5, 2007 (1949-2002) Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Oct 22, 1817, South Natick—Jul 15, 1897, Trieste, Austria (1856-1897?) Arthur Wilder Thayer, Aug 26, 1857, Dedham—Nov 17, 1934, Dedham (1889-?) Stephen Sumner Townsend, 1865—1941 (1903-?)* Everett Ellsworth Truette, Mar 14, 1861, Rockland—1933, Brooklyn, NY (1914-?) Betsy (Frost) Warren-Davis, b. 1921, Boston (1989-)* George James Webb, Jun 24, 1803, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England—Oct 7, 1887, Orange, NJ (1840-1858) John Weiss, Jun 28, 1818?, Boston—Mar 9, 1879, Boston (1856-1879) Arthur Cyril Gordon Weld, Mar 4, 1862, Jamaica Plain—Oct 11, 1914 West Point, NY (1888-1892)* (William) Scott Wheeler, b. Feb 24, 1952, Washington, DC (2002-) Benjamin Lincoln Whelpley, Oct 23, 1864, Eastport, ME—Feb 15, 1946, Boston (1891-1946)* Arthur Battelle Whiting, Jun 20, 1861, Cambridge—Jul 20, 1936, Beverly (1889-1890, 1892-1896)* Samuel Brenton Whitney, Jun 4, 1842, Woodstock, VT—Aug 3, 1914, Brattleboro, VT (1878-1914?)* Frederick William Wodell, Dec 17, 1859, London, UK—Feb 13, 1938, St. Petersburg, FL (1906-?) James Hayden Wright, May 14, 1867, Quincy Mine Location, MI—d. ? (1902-1939) Karl Zerrahn, Jul 28, 1826, Malchow, Germany—Dec 29, 1909, Milton (1862-1909) * Indicates burial at Mount Auburn Cemetery * Indicates an HMA commission * Indicates works performed at an HMA concert (Indicates dates of membership) Composers listed in Green are current members. Last update: May 27, 2010 115 .