Ruth Shaw Wylie
Deceased Person
1916 – 1989
Who was Ruth Shaw Wylie?
Ruth Shaw Wylie was a U.S.-born composer and music educator. She described herself as “a fairly typical Midwestern composer,” pursuing musical and aesthetic excellence but not attracting much national attention: “All good and worthy creative acts do not take place in New York City,” she wrote in 1962, “although most good and worthy rewards for creative acts do emanate from there; and if we can’t all be on hand to reap these enticing rewards we can take solace in the fact that we are performing good deeds elsewhere.” She was among the many twentieth-century American composers whose work contributed to the recognition of American “serious” music as a distinct genre.
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- Born
- Jun 24, 1916
Cincinnati - Education
- Eastman School of Music
- Died
- Jan 30, 1989
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on July 23, 2013
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