Chadwick, George (Whitefield) (1854-1931)

US composer. He studied at Boston, Leipzig, and under Josef Rheinberger in Munich, Germany. He returned to the USA in 1880 and became organist at Boston, then professor at the New England Conservatory and its director in 1897.

Works Opera Tabasco (1894), Judith (1900), The Padrone (1912), and others.

Chorus and orchestra The Viking's Last Voyage, The Song of the Viking, Lovely Rosabelle, The Lily Nymph, Phoenix expirans, and others.

Orchestral three symphonies (1882-94), symphonic poems Cleopatra, Aphrodite, Angel of Death, Tam o'Shanter (after Burns; 1911); overtures Rip van Winkle, Thalia, Melpomene, Adonis (after Shelley), Euterpe, and others; Symphonic Sketches; Sinfonietta; Suite symphonique.

Chamber five string quartets (1878-98), piano quintet.

Other songs with orchestra and with piano; piano and organ works; church music, part-songs.