Louis Campbell-Tipton

An American composer who lived in Paris from 1901 until his death, Louis Campbell-Tipton composed several song settings of Walt Whitman's poetry. He also set the texts of Arthur Symons, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hermann Hagedorn and Arthur J. Lamb as well as several French lyrics.

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Born in Chicago, Illinois, Louis Campbell-Tipton began publishing his songs at the age of 15. He studied in Leipzig and settled in Paris at the age of 24, convinced that he would be unable to have his works published in America.

While he composed several instrumental works and two operas (neither of which were published), he was and is still known today for his more than two dozen art songs.

–Christie Finn

Source: ArkivMusic Biography

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Recordings

Songs from Chicago

(Ernst Bacon, Margaret Bonds, John Alden Carpenter, Louis Campbell-Tipton and Florence Price)

2018


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John Brownlee: Lied-Edition

(Louis Campbell-Tipton, Walter Damrosch and Sidney Homer)

2007

Americans in Paris

(Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Henry Hadley, Charles Martin Loeffler, Charles Ives and Kurt Weill)

2000

Icon: Jussi Björling (Disc 4)

(Amy Marcy Beach, Louis Campbell-Tipton, Stephen Foster and Oley Speaks)

1959

Sheet Music

"Elegy"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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"If I Were King"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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IMSLP: Louis Campbell-Tipton Sheet Music

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Louis Campbell-Tipton Sheet Music

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Four Sea Lyrics

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

Song(s): 1. After Sunset
2. Darkness
3. The Crying of Water
4. Requies

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G. Schirmer: "After Sunset"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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G. Schirmer: "Darkness"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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G. Schirmer: "The Crying of Water"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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G. Schirmer: "Requies"

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton

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The First Book of Soprano Solos

Composer(s): Louis Campbell-Tipton, Samuel Barber, Edward MacDowell, Oley Speaks

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