Amy Beach

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A collector friend has asked me whether the composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867-1944) ever made recordings.
I can find no evidence that she did, although she performed extensively in concerts, and a search of this forum produced no results.
Should I tell my friend that the answer to his question is "No", or does anyone here know otherwise?

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I would say no. If she had, it would undoubtedly have been referred to & circulated by now.

She certainly couldn't have done it while her husband was alive

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I refer readers of this thread to the evidently well-documented and thorough entry in the Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach. Formerly referred to by her married name as Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, Amy Cheney is her birth name.

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Wikipedia was my first search, but having found no recordings of Beach herself in the incomplete discography I asked the experts here, just in case Wikipedia had missed something.

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I don't think Amy Beach made records, but the Olive Meade Quartet, with which she performed at least a time or two and which gave the New York premiere of her Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, made some cylinders for Edison.

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