American pianist and composer.
This article is about the American pianist. For the American actress, see
Agnes Ayres .
Agnes Gardner Eyre
Agnes Gardner Eyre (Boston Public Library, Philip Hale Collection)
Born (1881-12-10 ) December 10, 1881Minnesota
Died July 16, 1950(1950-07-16) (aged 68)Fresno, California
Other names Gardner Eyre, Agnes de Jahn Occupation Pianist Relatives
Gunnar Jahn (brother-in-law)
Agnes Gardner Eyre de Jahn (December 10, 1881 – July 16, 1950) was an American pianist, composer, and piano teacher, a student of
Theodor Leschetizky .
Early life and education
Eyre was born in
Ortonville, Minnesota ,
[1] the daughter of Lewis John Eyre and Agnes Augusta Gardner Eyre (later Norrish).
[2]
[3]
[4] Her father was a salesman, born in England. She studied composition and harmony with
George Whitefield Chadwick and
Edward Shippen Barnes at the
New England Conservatory of Music in Boston,
[3] and for four years with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna.
[5]
Career
Eyre was a concert pianist; she toured in Europe, Great Britain, and North America, and appeared with violinist
Jan Kubelik
[6]
[7] and sopranos
Corinne Rider-Kelsey ,
[8]
Abby Beecher Longyear
[9] and
Ella Russell .
[5] She performed at the 1905
Proms .
[10] "She played with really brilliant success," said a reviewer in Santa Barbara in 1906.
[11]
As Gardner Eyre ,
[12] she composed songs, hymns, and works for piano, including "Love Radiant", "Some Day", "Adoration", "God is Ever Near", "Be Thou Our Guide",
[13] "Were I a Pirate of the Sea"
[14] "Drifting",
[12] and "Beyond the Mist".
[15]
Eyre taught piano students at the
Institute of Musical Art in New York,
[16] and in California in her later years.
[3] She attended the 1927 convention of the California Music Teachers Association.
[17] In 1931, she was guest soloist at the first concert of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra.
[18] She was a judge for the 1938 National Piano Playing Tournament, sponsored by the National Guild of Piano Teachers.
[19]
During
World War I , Eyre served in the
National League for Women's Service , with the rank of lieutenant. She organized an auxiliary transportation unit in
Scarsdale, New York .
[20] She was a member of the New York
Antivivisection Society.
[21]
Personal life
Eyre married Norwegian-born Fredrik Wexelsen Jahn in 1909, in San Francisco.
[22] They divorced before 1930. Her brother-in-law was economist
Gunnar Jahn . She died in 1950, aged 68 years, in
Fresno, California .
[1]
References
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"Agnes de Jahn, 69, Fresno Pianist, Composer, Dies" . The Fresno Bee . July 17, 1950. p. 13. Retrieved July 6, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Boston University,
Year Book (1900): 41.
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c Richard Drake Sauners (1948).
Music And Dance In California And The West . Universal Digital Library. Bureau of Musical Research, Inc. p. 216 – via Internet Archive.
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"Agnes Augusta Norrish, Banker's Widow, Dies" . The Fresno Bee . May 23, 1949. p. 17. Retrieved July 6, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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b
"Agnes Gardner Eyre, Talented Pianist" Musical Courier 57(September 23, 1908): 19.
^ Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1906).
Yearbook of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences . p. 157.
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"Abroad" . The Violin Times . 13 : 68. May 1906.
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"Programmes and Plans for the Coming Season" . The New Music Review and Church Music Review . 7 : 681. November 1908.
^ Boston Symphony Orchestra (1908).
Programme . The Orchestra.
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"Proms 1905: Performers" BBC.
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"Kubelik Wins His Audience" . Santa Barbara Weekly Press . April 5, 1906. p. 8. Retrieved July 5, 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
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a
b
"Soprano and pianist to Give Recital" . The Fresno Morning Republican . October 18, 1925. p. 17. Retrieved July 6, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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"Gardner Eyre" . Pacific Coast Music Review . 55 : 65. December 5–19, 1927 – via Internet Archive.
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"Attractive Song Miscellany" . Musical Observer . 25 (5): 29. May 1926.
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"Offer Maderans Musical Feast" . Madera Tribune . September 27, 1929. p. 2. Retrieved July 5, 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^ Elson, Louis Charles (1912).
University Musical Encyclopedia . University society. p. 436.
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"California Music Teachers in Annual Convention" . Pacific Coast Music Review . 53 : 36. December 5–19, 1927 – via Internet Archive.
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"Fresno, Cal., Has New Orchestra" . Musical Courier . 102 (8): 37. February 21, 1931 – via Internet Archive.
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"Piano Playing Tournament" . The Southwestern Musician and Texas Music Educator . 4 (7): 15. May–June 1938 – via Internet Archive.
^ Hutton, Thomas Radcliffe (1919).
H-a-l-tt!--Wha-zaa?: Being a History of the First Provisional Regiment and the Answer of a State Militant to the Threat of Berlin, Ed. and Comp . Aqueduct guard citizens' committee. pp. 330, 337.
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Women of 1923 International . John C. Winston. 1923. p. 179.
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"Marriage Licenses" . San Francisco Call . September 14, 1909. p. 11. Retrieved July 5, 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.