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Hamish MacCunn

Scottish romantic composer, conductor and teacher

Hamish MacCunn, né James MacCunn (22 March 1868 – 2 August 1916) was a Scottish composer, conductor and teacher.

He was one of the first students of the newly founded Royal College of Music in London, and quickly made a mark. As a composer he achieved early success with his orchestral piece The Land of the Mountain and the Flood (1887), and, later, his first opera, Jeanie Deans (1894). His subsequent compositions did not match those two successes, and although he continued to compose throughout his life, he became best known as a conductor and teacher. He held teaching appointments at the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music.

As a conductor MacCunn served as musical director to the Carl Rosa, Moody-Manners and D'Oyly Carte opera companies, and worked with Thomas Beecham in the latter's London opera seasons in 1910 and 1915 and on tour.

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Works

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  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 1. Welcome Dance
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 2. Kerchief Dance
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 3. Gillie's Dance
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 4. Dirk Dance
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 5. Plaid Dance
  • 6 Scotch Dances, op. 28: 6. Farewell Dance
  • Album of Seven Songs, op. 30
  • Changes
  • Highland Memories, op. 30
  • I Will Think of Thee My Love
  • In the Glen
  • Jeanie Deans
  • Jeanie Deans: "I love a lass that's fair to see" (Dumbiedykes)
  • Jeanie Deans: "Nay, neighbour, take it not so hard" (Chorus)
  • Jeanie Deans: "O Effie, darling, love!" (Staunton)
  • Jeanie Deans: "O God, whose eyes can never look on sin" (Jeanie)
  • Jeanie Deans: "O father, father, shame indeed is mine" (Effie)
  • Jeanie Deans: "O friends, I said but now" (Deans)
  • Jeanie Deans: "Oh! would that I again could see" (Effie)
  • Jeanie Deans: "Sleep for the day is done" (Effie)
  • Jeanie Deans: "That shout! the people have their victim safe" (Staunton)
  • Jeanie Deans: "Thou hast shamed our honest blood!" (Deans)
  • Jeanie Deans: "What can it be that weighs upon my spirit?" (Jeanie)
  • Jeanie Deans: "Why com'st thou thus, dear sister?" (Jeanie)
  • Jeanie Deans: Introduction
  • Lie There, My Lute
  • One Lone Star
  • Over a Shining Land
  • The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow
  • The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
  • The Lay of the Last Minstrel
  • The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Chorus "O Caledonia! stern and wild"
  • The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Recitative "Breathes there the man, with soul so dead"
  • The Ship o’ the Fiend, op. 5
  • The Waterfall, op. 30 no. 4