Edward MacDowell . 13); thesecond piano suite (opus 14)—begun in the days ofhis Darmstadt professorship ; the first piano con-certo (opus 15) ; the Serenade (opus 16); the two Fantasiestucke of opus 17, Erzahlung and themuch-played Hexentanz ; the Barcarolle andHumoreske of opus 18; the Wald-Idyllen(opus 19) ; the Drei Poesien (opus 20) andu Mondbilder (opus 21)—both for four-hand per-formance ; and the two tone poems for orchestra,u Hamlet and Ophelia (opus 22), his first pro-duction of important content and significance. Frankfort having ceased to hold much of interestfor him after the death

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Edward MacDowell . 13); thesecond piano suite (opus 14)—begun in the days ofhis Darmstadt professorship ; the first piano con-certo (opus 15) ; the Serenade (opus 16); the two Fantasiestucke of opus 17, Erzahlung and themuch-played Hexentanz ; the Barcarolle andHumoreske of opus 18; the Wald-Idyllen(opus 19) ; the Drei Poesien (opus 20) andu Mondbilder (opus 21)—both for four-hand per-formance ; and the two tone poems for orchestra,u Hamlet and Ophelia (opus 22), his first pro-duction of important content and significance. Frankfort having ceased to hold much of interestfor him after the death of Raff in the summer of1882, MacDowell removed, in 1885, to had married in the previous year Miss MarianNevins of New York, and their life in Wiesbadenduring the next few years was of an ideal serenityand detachment MacDowell had determined to * The Two Old Songs, which bear an earlier opus number,were composed at a much later period—a fact which is betrayedby their patent difference in &£-&*W 2^£e h^^^ S%*,y£. \^

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