Background
Amy Marcy Cheney was born on September 5, 1867, in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Charles Abbott and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney.
Amy Marcy Cheney was born on September 5, 1867, in Henniker, New Hampshire, United States. Daughter of Charles Abbott and Clara Imogene (Marcy) Cheney.
She get education by mother, then played on the piano and harmony under Junius W. Hill, Ernest Perabo and Carl Baermann. Also, she studied fugue, form, counterpoint and instrumentation alone with text books.
Amy Cheney made her concert debut at age sixteen on October 18, 1883 in a "Promenade Concert" conducted by Adolph Neuendorff at Boston's Music Hall. The next two years of her career included performances in Chickering Hall, and she starred in the final performance of the Boston Symphony's 1884–85 season.
Amy would later recall one rehearsal for a Mendelssohn concerto in 1885, when the conductor slowed the orchestra during the last movement, attempting to go easy on the teenage soloist. She composed more than 150 numbered works - choral, orchestral, sacred, songs and music to the poetry of major poets.
She was married Henry Harris Aubrey Beach, December 2, 1885 (died 1910).