Discipline: Music Composition

Edwin Hughes

Discipline: Music Composition
MacDowell Fellowships: 1925
Edwin Hughes (1884-1965) was an American pianist, composer, and teacher. He studied with S.M. Fabian in Washington, D.C., with Joseffy in New York (1906-1907), and with Leschetizky in Vienna (1907-1910). His first public performance was in Baltimore in 1903, his European debut being in Vienna, 1912 and his New York City debut being in 1917. Hughes taught at the Ganapol School of Musical Art in Detroit from 1910 to 1912, the Volpe Institute of Music in New York from 1916 to 1917, and the Institute of Musical Art in New York from 1918 to 1923. He lectured at various schools. From 1920 to 1926 he was special editor of piano music for G. Schirmer, Inc. He toured widely in the U.S. and Europe after the close of World War I; performed duo-recitals with the pianist Jewel Bethany Hughes, his wife, and also gave master-classes.