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James Philip Dunn
(1884-1936)
James P. Dunn was born in New York. He
was educated in parochial schools and City
College and went on to Columbia, where he
studied under Cornelius Rybner and Edward
MacDowell. He was self-taught in orchestration
and organ. In 1915-17 he published sixteen
songs, including his best-known, “The
Bitterness of Love.†Others have also been
much admired, such as “Serenade†(Frederic
E. Martens) and “A Faery Song†(W. B.Yeats).
Dunn’s music includes chamber works,
choral pieces, and an opera. His Overture on
Negro Themes (1922) enjoyed some success,
and at the time of Lindbergh’s historic flight
(1927) Dunn’s symphonic poem We won critical
attention.
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