Arthur Bergh

Arthur Bergh
Nationality	United States of America
Instruments	violin · organ · piano

Arthur Bergh
Bergh in 1915
Background information
Born	(1882-03-24)March 24, 1882 Saint Paul, Minnesota
Died	February 11, 1962(1962-02-11) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California
Occupation(s)	Composer conductor accompanist
Instrument(s)	Piano violin organ
Spouse(s)	Geraldyne Brewer ​ (m. 1901)​

Arthur Oscar Bergh (March 24, 1882 – February 11, 1962) was an American composer, conductor and accompanist. He performed on the piano, violin and organ.

Bergh was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Bergh became the recording manager at Emerson Records in 1916; he had previously been employed by Columbia Records, and was convinced to move to Victor Emerson's new company after Emerson himself left Columbia.

In his later life, Bergh worked as a librarian with Hollywood film companies. He died in Los Angeles on February 11, 1962. After Bergh's death, Geraldyne married Los Angeles Superior Court judge McIntyre Faries on December 3, 1965. Geraldyne died in 1998 and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.

Works

He composed a number of operas and operettas, including adaptations of Robert Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. His Lieder include music to Walt Whitman's The Imprisoned Soul (1939), Percy Bysshe Shelley's Music, When Soft Voices Die (1947), Emily Dickinson's The Grass (1954), and John Greenleaf Whittier's Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (1955).

• 1908 – The Raven, Op. 20 (Edgar Allan Poe)
• 1910 – December, Op. 9 No. 1 (Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
• 1913 – Evening, a Reverie, Op. 15, No. 1
• 1913 – Meditation in A♭, Op. 15, No. 2
• 1913 – Serenade Coquette, Op. 15, No. 3
• 1913 – Here They Come
• 1914 – The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Op. 23 (Robert Browning)
• 1915 – Four Tone Pastels, Op. 17
• 1919 – Vesper Song (Cordelia Brooks Fenno)
• 1919 – The Goblin Fair (Cordelia Brooks Fenno)
• 1924 – In Arcady
• 1926 – Concert Suite for the Pianoforte
• 1941 – Love Is the Light of the World (Paul Laurence Dunbar)
• 1938 – Honor and Glory, Op. 30
• 1938 – Destiny
• 1938 – O Captain! My Captain!
• 1939 – The Imprisoned Soul (Walt Whitman)
• 1941 – Come With Arms Outstretched (Sara Teasdale)
• 1947 – Music, When Soft Voices Die, Op. 37 (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 1950 – I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• 1954 – The Grass (Emily Dickinson)
• 1955 – Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (John Greenleaf Whittier)