Mason, Daniel Gregory
(1873–1953)
Mason, Daniel Gregory. Brookline, Massachusetts, 20 November 1873 – Greenwich, Connecticut, 4 December 1953 Mason was the grandson of Lowell Mason. He studied at Harvard University (1892–95) under John Knowles Paine, with George W. Chadwick in Boston, and Percy Goetschius in New York. He was a piano pupil of Ethelbert Nevin. After attending Vincent d’Indy’s composition classes in Paris in 1913, he returned to the United States and joined the music department at Columbia University in 1914…