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[[File:JohnKPaine.jpg|thumb|200px|John Knowles Paine]]
'''John Knowles Paine''' (January 9, 1839 – April 25, 1906) was the first [[United States|American]]-born [[composer]] to achieve fame for large-scale [[orchestra]]l music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the [[Boston Six]], Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the [[United States]]. The Boston Six's other five members were [[Amy Beach]], [[Arthur Foote]], [[Edward MacDowell]], [[George Whitefield Chadwick|George Chadwick]], and [[Horatio Parker]].
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Paine grew up in a musical family in Maine. His grandfather, an instrument maker, built the first pipe organ in the state of Maine and his father and uncles were all music teachers. His father carried on the family musical instrument business. One uncle was an organist. Another was a composer. In the 1850s Paine took lessons in organ and composition from [[Hermann Kotzschmar]], completing his first composition, a string quartet, in 1855 at the age of 16. After his first organ recital in 1857, he was appointed organist of Portland's Haydn Society, and gave a series of recitals with the object of funding a trip to Europe where he hoped to further his music education.
On arrival in Europe, Paine studied organ with [[Carl August Haupt]] and orchestration with [[
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In 1889, Paine made one of the first musical recordings on [[wax cylinder]] with [[Theo Wangemann]], who was experimenting with sound recording on the newly invented [[phonograph]].<ref>Patrick Feaster, [http://www.nps.gov/edis/photosmultimedia/theo-wangemann-biography.htm "Theo Wangemann biography"] Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Retrieved February 3, 2012</ref>
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John Knowles Paine was among the initial class of inductees into the [[American Classical Music Hall of Fame and Museum|American Classical Music Hall of Fame]] in 1998.
The ''Grove Music Encyclopedia'' says of him:
| encyclopedia = [[Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music Online]]
| title = John Knowles Paine
| publisher = [[Oxford University Press]]
| issn = 0031-8299 }}</ref></blockquote>
Paine Hall, the concert hall for Harvard's Department of Music, is named after him. A history of that building<ref>Reinhold Brinkmann and Lesley Bannatyne, ''[
==In popular culture==
At the end of the episode "A Long Ladder" (S01E04) of the HBO television series ''[[The Gilded Age (TV series)|The Gilded Age]]'', in a scene set in New York in 1882, the [[Boston Symphony Orchestra]] is shown under the composer's direction performing Paine's [[Symphony No. 2 (Paine)|Symphony No. 2]]. The middle two movements are seen and heard in the episode: the Scherzo and the Adagio.
==Principal works==
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'''Orchestral'''
*[[Symphony No. 1 (Paine)|Symphony No. 1]],
*[[As You Like It Overture (Paine)|''As You Like It'', Overture]],
*''The Tempest'', Symphonic Poem,
*[[Symphony No. 2 (Paine)|Symphony No. 2 in A
*Prelude from ''Oedipus Tyrannus'',
*Poseidon and Amphitrite: an Ocean Fantasy, Op.44
'''Chorus and Orchestra'''
*''Freedom, Our Queen''
*''Domine salvum fac Praesidem nostrum'',
*[[Mass in D minor (Paine)|Mass in D minor]],
*''St. Peter'': An Oratorio,
*''Centennial Hymn'',
*''Oedipus Tyrannus'',
*''The Realm of Fancy'',
*''Phoebus, Arise!'',
'''Organ'''
*[[Concert Variations]] on
*Concert Variations on the ''Austrian Hymn'',
*
*Prelude in B minor,
*Fugue in C minor (from Four Pieces)
'''Hymn Tune'''
*''Harvard Hymn'' (tune used for a text beginning "Deus omnium creator" by James Bradstreet Greenough, customarily sung by the assembly at ceremonies conferring Harvard degrees) <ref>[https://legacy-www.math.harvard.edu/history/hymn/index.html "The Harvard Hymn" on a Harvard Mathematics website]</ref>
==Notes and references==
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* {{IMSLP|id=Paine, John Knowles|cname=John Knowles Paine}}
* {{ChoralWiki}}
* {{gutenberg author|48129}}
* {{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/05/john-knowles-paine.html|title=Vita: John Knowles Paine|last=Somerville|first=Murray Forbes|date=May–June 2000|publisher=Harvard Magazine|accessdate=2 December 2013}}▼
* {{Internet Archive author|John Knowles Paine}}
▲* {{cite web|url=http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/05/john-knowles-paine.html|title=Vita: John Knowles Paine|last=Somerville|first=Murray Forbes|date=May–June 2000|publisher=Harvard Magazine|
==Archives==
* [http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990080407390203941/catalog John Knowles Paine scrapbook, musical scores and photographs, 1859-1906] at [http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/isham/ Isham Memorial Library, Harvard University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218030134/http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/loebmusic/isham/ |date=2017-02-18 }}
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