Notes, March 1st, 1994
In 1862, the great American composer John Knowles Paine began what would be a forty-three year professional association with Harvard University. Following a then usual period of study in Europe (in Paine's case in Berlin, with the respected pedagogues Karl-August Haupt and Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht), he commenced his career at harvard as university organist and instructor of one lower-level music course. It was not until the 1875--76 school year that he accepted the post Professor of Music, one of the first such academic positions in music in the United States. After an exceptional career ...
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