Lawrence Gilman

Living Masters of Music Lawrence Gilman

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"Those who have discerned a persistent Celtic strain in MacDowell's artistic personality will not be surprised to know that there is substantial genealogical warrant for the truth of their observation. Both MacDowell's grandfather and grandmother on his father's side were born in Ireland, of Irish-Scotch parents. Knapp, a young American woman of English antecedents. From his father, a man of keenly aesthetic instincts, Edward acquired his artistic tendencies and his Celtic sensitiveness of temperament, together with the pictorial instinct which was later to compete with his musical ability for decisive recognition."