Edward Burlingame Hill

Edward Burlingame Hill (9 September 1872, Cambridge, Massachusetts — 9 July 1960, Francestown, New Hampshire) was an American composer and distinguished music pedagogue who taught at Harvard University from 1908 until his retirement in 1940. Hill graduated from Harvard in 1894, pursuing further studies in Boston with John Knowles Paine, Frederick Field Bullard, Margaret Ruthven Lang, and George Elbridge Whiting. Edward then traveled to France, taking additional lessons with Charles-Marie Widor; after returning to Boston, he studied with George Whitefield Chadwick. After joining his alma mater's faculty in 1908, E.B. Hill taught at Harvard University for over thirty years. Among his students were such notable composers and artists as Leonard Bernstein, Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, and Ross Lee Finney. Hill wrote four symphonies, two piano concertos, and numerous other works; some of the less conventional genres he explored include an English horn/cor anglais concerto and "Jazz Study No. 1" (1924) for two pianos.