Bacon, Ernst (1898-1990)

US pianist, conductor, and composer. He studied music at Chicago and in Vienna, and later in the USA with Bloch and Eugene Goossens. In 1925 he was appointed piano professor at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, New York, and in 1945 was made director of the music school at the University of Syracuse, New York.

Works musical comedy Take your Choice; musical play A Tree on the Plains; cantatas Ecclesiastes and From Emily's Diary (Emily Dickinson); Dr. Franklin, musical play (1976); three symphonies (1932, 1937, 1961), two suites and other orchestral music; settings of Dickinson and Whitman.