Amy Marcy Cheney Beach has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 4 October 2020. Songs played include Four Sketches Op.15: In Autumn, Canticle Of The Sun and Scottish Legend, Op.54, No.1.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (September 5, 1867 – December 27, 1944) was an American composer and pianist. She was the first successful American female composer of large-scale art music. Most of her compositions and performances were under the name Mrs. H.H.A. Beach.

She was born Amy Marcy Cheney in Henniker, N. H. into a distinguished New England family. A child prodigy, she was able to sing forty…