Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap
(1868–1928)
Gilbert, Henry Franklin Belknap. Somerville, Massachusetts, 26 September 1868 – c. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19 May 1928 Gilbert studied French literature before attending the New England Conservatory in Boston (1886–87). He was later the first American pupil of Edward MacDowell (1889–92). He became a businessman but gave up his career in 1902 to devote himself to composition. Throughout his life he suffered a congenital cardiac defect, tetralogy of Follot (blue babies disease). The Boston…