Henry Kimball Hadley

In 1933 the Musical Courier called Henry Kimball Hadley "probably the most important composer in the contemporary American musical scene." Although his musical influence has been obscured by others over the past three-quarters of a century, his amazing promotion and support of American music and composers has only been matched by Koussevitzky and Hanson. Henry Hadley was one of the most amazingly prolific composers of the early twentieth century. He composed virtually in every musical genre, producing operas, operettas, incidental music, musicals, ballet suites, band pieces, symphonies, overtures, tone poems, cantatas, hymns, oratorios, anthems, choral pieces, chamber music, piano pieces, and numerous songs. According to biographer J. Canfield, Hadley may also have written "the first musical score t