Vedic Horoscope for Beach, Amy

American composer and pianist, a child prodigy who sang at age two and began composing music at age four, performing publicly at age seven. At 13, Amy wrote "The Rainy Day" following a visit with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poem's author. It was her first published song. The home-tutored pianist first entered Boston's musical community at the age of eight. Because her parents could not afford to send her abroad, she received further musical training in Boston. In 1883, at age 16, she made her professional debut as a pianist. She went on to became a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.Sy Scholfield quotes Adrienne Fried Block, "Amy Beach: Passionate Victorian, The Life and Work of an American Composer 1867-1944," NY: Oxford UP, 1998, p. 3, quotes data with TOB of "between noon and 1 P.M." in footnote 1 (p. 313), from "Clara Imogene Cheney, [Biography of her daughter], 26 February 1892, MacDowall Colony Papers, Library of Congress."