Arthur Foote - Suites No. 1, Op. 15 and No. 2, Op. 30 (1886-93)

Arthur William Foote (March 5, 1853 in Salem, Massachusetts – April 8, 1937 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.

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Suite No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 (1886)

1. Prelude (0:00)
2. Fugue (3:01)
Dedication: George W. Chadwick
3. Romanze (5:46)
Dedication: Julius Rehn Weber
4. Capriccio (10:18)
Dedication: Fanny Bloomfield Zeisler

Kirsten Johnson, piano

Suite No. 2 in C minor, Op. 30 (1893)

1. Appassionato (13:33)
2. Romanze (17:06)
3. Toccata (22:06)

Virginia Eskin, piano

Fugue Op. 15, No. 2 was dedicated to George Whitefield Chadwick (November 13, 1854 – April 4, 1931) who was a composer from Boston. Along with John Knowles Paine, Horatio Parker, Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, and Edward MacDowell, he was a representative composer of what is called the Second New England School of American composers of the late 19th century—the generation before Charles Ives. Chadwick's works are influenced by the Realist movement in the arts, characterized by a down-to-earth depiction of people's lives.

Romanza Op. 15, No. 3 was dedicated to Julius Rehn Weber who was a well known music teacher in San Francisco. Weber / Waybur taught for many years in the music department at Mills Seminary (now Mills College) in Oakland, conducted the University of California's orchestra, and helped to found the Arts and Music Department at the San Francisco Free Public Library.
For the San Francisco library he arranged in 1911 to purchase the 10,000-item sheet music library from the Schirmer Music Library in Boston.
His house is a historical landmark located at 3232 Pacific Ave. San Francisco.

Capriccio Op. 15, No. 4 was dedicated to Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler (July 16, 1863 – August 20, 1927) who was an Austrian-born U.S. pianist.
At the age of six, before receiving any musical instruction, she began picking out tunes on the piano. Her first teachers were in Chicago; Bernard Ziehn and Carl Wolfsohn. In 1877, Annette Essipova, then on tour in the United States, heard her play and advised that she became a pupil of Theodor Leschetizky. She made her debut at the age of 11 in February 1875. In 1878, she returned to Austria to study in Vienna, under Leschetizky. While in Austria, she changed her name from Blumenfeld to Bloomfield. She returned to Chicago in 1883. Bloomfeld married the attorney Sigmund Zeisler in 1885 and had three sons.
Around the turn of the century, she made piano rolls of various piano compositions, Chopin's Waltz No. 11 in G minor being among them.