Jessie Baetz
Jessie Baetz | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jessie Elizabeth Drummer[1] June 28, 1894[2] Toronto, Ontario, Canada[2] |
| Died | 1974 or later[3] |
| Occupation | Canadian-American artist, composer, and pianist |
| Spouse | Walter Baetz (1926 – ?)[1] |
Jessie Baetz (born Jessie Elizabeth Drummer, June 28, 1894 – 1974 or later) was a Canadian-American artist, composer, and pianist.
Baetz was a native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where she studied and taught at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, now known as the Royal Conservatory of Music. She immigrated to New York City, where 1930s census records list her occupation as "painter," and her art was included in an exhibit at the Jumble Shop on West 8th Street.[4] She studied with another modern composer, Johanna Beyer,[5] played on Beyer's concerts for the , and showed clear signs of Beyer and Henry Cowell's influence in her experimental compositional techniques such as tone clusters, polymeters, and string piano techniques. Her works were performed in the Composers' Forum on December 15, 1937.
Works[]
- Two Compositions for Violin and Piano
- Three Vocalizes for Soprano
- Six Dances for Percussion
Notes[]
- ^ a b Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927. FamilySearch. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ a b [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP8V-HBQ2 New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946. FamilySearch. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
- ^ Staff (February 17, 1974). "Rare Exhibit of Toy Soldiers Now Parade in New Paltz Hall". The Kingston Daily Freeman.
- ^ New York Times, Dec. 21, 1932, p. 17.
- ^ Melissa de Graaf, "Intersections of Gender and Modernism in the Music of Johanna Beyer," Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter 33/2 (Spring 2004): 8–9, 15 <http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/isam/S04Newshtml/Beyer/Beyer.htm Archived 2008-03-04 at the Wayback Machine>
Further reading[]
- Staff (June 22, 1966). "Phoenicia Library Has Art Exhibit". The Kingston Daily Freeman. p. 26
- Staff (October 31, 1970). "Art Show With Zing". The Kingston Daily Freeman. p. 35
See also[]
- 20th-century classical composers
- Modernist composers
- American women classical composers
- American classical composers
- American contemporary classical composers
- Canadian classical composers
- Contemporary classical music performers
- The Royal Conservatory of Music alumni
- The Royal Conservatory of Music faculty
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- Artists from Toronto
- Artists from New York City
- Musicians from Toronto
- Musicians from New York City
- 20th-century Canadian composers
- 20th-century American women musicians
- 20th-century American composers
- Modernist women composers
- 20th-century women composers
- American women academics
- 1894 births
- Canadian women composers