Sarah Esslinger
American composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) composed 117 art songs, eighteen of which are set with foreign-language texts in French and German. Unfortunately, Beach’s remarkably expressive songs are not widely performed or appreciated. Their underrepresentation in the vocal canon can be partially explained by a lack of performance resources. My project aims to establish a resource in the history, performance, and lyric diction of Amy Beach’s French and German art songs.