Arthur Whiting

[b]Arthur Whiting[/b] (20 June 1861, Cambridge, Massachusetts — 20 July 1936, Beverly, MA) was an American pianist, composer, lecturer and writer, nephew of [url=https://discogs.com/artist/11192756]George E. Whiting[/url] (1861—1944), and member of the [url=https://discogs.com/label/293110]National Institute of Arts and Letters[/url] (1905). Whiting began studying piano at eight with his mother, later trained on organ by his uncle, George Elbridge. Arthur debuted as a concert pianist circa 1873, when he was only thirteen. He served as a titular organist at [url=https://discogs.com/label/1458091]All Saints Church[/url] in Worcester for three years before enrolling at the [l=New England Conservatory Of Music], where Whiting studied with William H. Sherwood (1854—1911) and [a=George Whitefield Chadwick]. Between 1883 and 1885, Arthur Batelle took lessons from [a=Josef Rheinberger] at [l=Musikhochschule München] in Germany. In 1885, Whiting returned to America and settled back in Boston, where he was associated with the "Second New England School," or New England Classicists, a group of composers influenced by German Romantic tradition: [a=John Knowles Paine] (1839—1906), [a=Arthur Foote] (1853—1937), [a=George Whitefield Chadwick] (1854—1931), [a=Amy Marcy Cheney Beach] (1867—1944), [a=Edward MacDowell] (1861—1908), [a=Horatio William Parker] (1863—1919), [a=Edgar Stillman-Kelley] (1857—1944), and [a=Margaret Ruthven Lang] (1867—1972). Around 1895, A.B. Whiting relocated to New York City; he later taught at the [url=https://discogs.com/label/2221363]Cincinnati College of Music[/url]'s Organ Department with [url=https://discogs.com/artist/6537877]Theodore Thomas[/url]. Between 1907 and 1930, Arthur Whiting traveled across various US universities with his annual cycle of lectures/recitals on chamber music, read at [url=https://discogs.com/label/350923]Harvard[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/label/289773]Princeton[/url], [url=https://discogs.com/label/602659]Yale[/url], and [l=Columbia University].