Boston Six

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the Boston Six

  1. (music, historical, US) Six specific influential classical-music composers who lived during the late-19th and early-20th centuries in Boston, considered part of the Second New England School: John Knowles Paine (1839–1906), Arthur Foote (1853–1937), George Chadwick (1854–1931), Amy Beach (1867–1944), Edward MacDowell (1861–1908), and Horatio Parker (1863–1919).