Ballantine, Edward
(1886–1971)
Ballantine, Edward. Oberlin, Ohio, 6 August 1886 – Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, 2 July 1971 Ballantine studied with Walter Spalding and Frederick Converse at Harvard University (1904–07), and was a piano pupil of Artur Schnabel and Rudolf Ganz in Berlin (1907–09). He was appointed an instructor at Harvard in 1912, becoming an assistant professor in 1926 and associate professor in 1932; he retired in 1947. For orchestra Ballantine wrote Prelude to the Delectable Forest (1914); The Eve of St Agnes…