From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jessie Baetz
Jessie Baetz
Jessie Baetz Notes
Occupation Canadian-American artist, composer, and [1] New York Times, Dec. 21, 1932, p. 17.
pianist
[2] Melissa de Graaf, “Intersections of Gender and
Modernism in the Music of Johanna Beyer,”
Jessie Baetz was a Canadian-American artist, composer,
Institute for Studies in American Music Newsletter
and pianist.
33/2 (Spring 2004): 8–9, 15
She was a native of Toronto, Canada, where she stud-
now known as the Royal Conservatory of Music. She im-
migrated to New York, where 1930s census records list
her occupation as “painter,” and her art was included in See also
an exhibit at the Jumble Shop on West 8th Street.[1] She • Music of Canada
studied with another ultramodernist composer, Johan- • List of Canadian composers
na Beyer,[2] played on Beyer’s concerts for the New York
Persondata
Composers’ Forum, and showed clear signs of Beyer and
Henry Cowell’s influence in her experimental composi- Name Baetz, Jessie
tional techniques such as tone clusters, polymeters, and Alternative names
string piano techniques. Her own works were performed Short description
in the Composers’ Forum on December 15, 1937.
Date of birth
Place of birth
Works
Date of death
• Two Compositions for Violin and Piano
Place of death
• Three Vocalizes for Soprano
• Six Dances for Percussion
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