Background
Coerne, Louis Adolphe was born on February 27, 1870 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adolphe M. and Elizabeth (Homan) Coerne.
Coerne, Louis Adolphe was born on February 27, 1870 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adolphe M. and Elizabeth (Homan) Coerne.
German and French schools. Graduate Boston Latin School, 1888. Harvard, 1888-1890, Ph.
Doctorate., 1905.
Studied harmony and composition under Professor J. K. Paine. Violin under Franz Kneisel. Organ and composition under Rheinberger, Royal Academy Music, Munich, 1890-1893.
Graduate with honors, 1893.
(Doctor of Music, Olivet College [Michigan], 1910.
Coerne wrote a number of pedagogical pieces for piano, and also composed a number of orchestral works, one of which, the tone poem Excalibur (Op 180), was recorded by Karl Krueger with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the late 1960s, and reissued on Civil Defense in 2006 by Bridge Records. His cantata, Hiawatha (op 18), was premiered in Munich in 1893 and performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1894. Coerne"s opera, Zenobia (op 66), premiered in Bremen, Germany, in 1905, and was the first opera by an American composer to be performed in Germany.
Earlier that year, Harvard had conferred on Coerne the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, with the score of Zenobia and his book, The Evolution of Modern Orchestration (published in 1908), serving as his thesis.
Other operas composed by Coerne:
A Woman of Marblehead (op 40)
Sakuntala (op 67)
The Maiden Queen (op 69)
Coerne taught at Smith College, Harvard, and Connecticut College. He died in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 11, 1922.
Mason.
Married Adele Turton, December 14, 1897.