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GILBERT (Gilbert) Henry Franklin Belknep (26 IX 1868, Somerville, PCs. Massachusetts - 19 V 1928, Cambridge, PCs. Massachusetts) - American composer. Studied at Novoangl. Conservatory in Boston, took private lessons in composition in New York from E. McDowell (1889-92). One of the organizers of the publishing house "Ou-One" (1901), which published the product. amer. composers so-called folklore. Published Sat “100 Folk Songs” (“100 Folksongs,” 1910). He wrote music critical. journal articles Musical Quarterly. Striving to create a truly nat. amer. music, used melodies and rhythms of the black. and Indian songs and dances (“Comic Overture on Negro Themes” - “Comedy overture on Negro themes”, 1905, performed under the supervision of R. M. Glier in Feodosia and Odessa in 1914; symphonic poem “Dances on Congo Square” - "The dance in Place Congo", 1906, post.in 1918 as a ballet pantomime, New York). Among others. Op. - "Negro rhapsody" ("Negro rhapsody", 1913), plays, including "Two episodes" ("Two episodes", 1896), "American" (humoresque on the themes of Negro minstrel tunes, 1903), 3 “Amer. Dance ”(American Dances, 1915) for orchestra, Op. for a choir with an orchestra, including the anthem "To You, America" ​​("That Thee, America", 1915); plays for fp., songs in words of English. and irl. poets.