About
Born in Pittsburgh, Ethelbert Nevin was the son of a writer and a pianist. The first grand piano carried over the Allegheny mountains was for his mother.
Nevinb began playing piano before age six and wrote his first musical composition at age 11. He had a career as both a virtuoso pianist and composer, settling at times in both Pittsburgh and Boston. After spending many years in Europe, Nevin gave piano recitals 1898 with the dancer Isadore Duncan in New York City. Duncan “illustrated in classic dances” the piano music of Nevin.
In addition to his 85 songs, Nevin composed 55 piano works, more than a dozen choral works, and other pieces, though no large scale works.
–Christie Finn
Source: Deane L. Root’s article in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Related Information
Songs
A Bed-Time Song
Ethelbert Nevin
Lillian Dynevor Rice
A Necklace of Love
Ethelbert Nevin
Frank Lebby Stanton
Song Collection: Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
An African Love Song
Ethelbert Nevin
Paul Laurence Dunbar
At Rest
Ethelbert Nevin
Frank Lebby Stanton
Cradle Song
Ethelbert Nevin
Five Songs, Op. 12
Song CollectionEthelbert Nevin
Eugene Field
I Once Had a Sweet Little Doll, Dears
Ethelbert Nevin
Charles Kingsley
Little Boy Blue
Ethelbert Nevin
Eugene Field
Mighty Lak' a Rose
Ethelbert Nevin
Frank Lebby Stanton
Nightingale's Song
Ethelbert Nevin
Alvin Hovey-King
Song Collection: Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
Serenade
Ethelbert Nevin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleeping and Dreaming
Ethelbert Nevin
Robert P. Nevin
Song Collection: Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
Stars of the Summer Night
Ethelbert Nevin
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Milkmaid's Song
Ethelbert Nevin
The Rosary
Ethelbert Nevin
Robert Cameron Rogers
The Woodpecker
Ethelbert Nevin
To Anne
Ethelbert Nevin
When All the World is Young, Lad
Ethelbert Nevin
Charles Kingsley
Recordings
Paul Robeson - The Complete EMI Sessions
(Charles Wakefield Cadman, Henry T. Burleigh, Benjamin Carr, Will Marion Cook, Stephen Foster, Langston Hughes, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Ethelbert Nevin, Oscar Rasbach and Oley Speaks)
1938
Rosa Ponselle On the Air, Vol. 1
(Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Ethelbert Nevin and Charles Gilbert Spross)
2000
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Contralto
(John Alden Carpenter, Stephen Foster, Ethelbert Nevin and John Stafford Smith)
1935
Paul Sperry Sings Songs of an Innocent Age
(Amy Marcy Beach, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Alden Carpenter, George Whitefield Chadwick, Arthur Foote, Henry F. Gilbert, Charles Griffes, Charles Ives, Edward MacDowell and Ethelbert Nevin)
1990
Books
Sheet Music
Ethelbert Nevin, Song Album II (Recital Publications)
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Find at your Local LibraryFive Songs, Op. 12
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Song(s): 1. A Summer Day
2. Beat upon mine, little heart
3. In a Bower
4. Little Boy Blue
5. At Twilight (Peyton Van Rensselaer)
Songs from Vineacre, Op. 28
Composer(s): Ethelbert Nevin
Song(s): 1. A Necklace of Love
2. Mon Desir
3. Sleeping and Dreaming
4. The Nightingale's Song
5. The Dream-Maker Man
6. The Silver Moon (La Lune Blanche)
7. Ein Liedchen
8. Ein Heldenlied