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Etching. Condition: Very Good. Etching; 6 1/2" X 4 1/2"; 1 pages; Interesting 19th Century etching portraying John Knowles Paine, from a photograph by Benjamin Balzly. Image measures 6 1/2" X 4 1/2" (14" x 11" matted). Clean sharp image, matted in white stock with clear mylar. John Knowles Paine (1839 â" 1906) was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those responsible for the first significant body of concert music by composers from the United States. The Boston Six's other five members were Amy Beach, Arthur Foote, Edward MacDowell, George Chadwick, and Horatio Parker. John Knowles Paine was among the initial class of inductees into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1998.…