America's Beethoven (2026)

from Tales From The Kentucky Room · host Lexington Public Library

David sits down with Dr. Ron Pen, musicology professor and director of the UK John Jacob Niles Center for American Music, to discuss America’s most important and most forgotten composer, Anthony Philip Heinrich. They discuss his musical style, how he came to America and Lexington, Kentucky, specifically, and how his music came to be forgotten.

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