Composers

William Mason

Piano
Cello
Dance
Piece
Waltz
Caprice
Ballades
Étude
Romance
Scherzo
Sketches
Character piece
by popularity

#

3 Characteristic Sketches, Op.353 Preludes, Op.83 Valses de salon, Op.7

A

A Pastoral noveletteAmitié pour Amitié, Op.4

B

Ballade et barcarole, Op.15Ballade No.1, Op.12Bittle-It Polka

C

Concert Galop, Op.11

D

Dance Antique, Op.38Dance Caprice, Op.36Danse rustique, Op.16

E

Etude de Concert, Op.9

I

Improvisation, Op.51

L

Lullaby, Op.10

M

Memories of a Musical Life

R

Rêverie Poétique, Op.24Romance-étude, Op.32Romance-Idyl, Op.42

S

Scherzo and Novelette, Op.31Scherzo, Op.41Serenata for Cello and Piano, Op.39Silver Spring, Op.6Spring Dawn, Op.20Spring Flower, Op.21

T

Toccata, Op.37Touch and Technic, Op.44

V

Valse caprice, Op.17Valse de bravoure, Op.5
Wikipedia
William Mason (January 24, 1829 – July 14, 1908) was an American composer and pianist and a member of a musical family. His father was composer Lowell Mason, a leading figure in American church music, and his younger brother, Henry Mason, was a co-founder of the piano manufacturers Mason and Hamlin.
Mason was born in Boston. After a successful debut at the Boston Academy of Music, he went to Europe in 1849; there he was the first American piano student of Franz Liszt and Ignaz Moscheles. He became the leader of a chamber ensemble based in New York that introduced many works of Robert Schumann and other famous Europeans to Americans during the Civil War era and beyond, at a time when classical music still had little specifically American identity.
Mason published numerous pedagogical works for the piano student, but is remembered above all for his Chopinesque compositions for piano. The American composer and pianist Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) dedicated his second piano sonata, Op. 50 Sonata Eroica (1895), to William Mason. He died in New York City, aged 79.