Theodore Chanler was a son of Major Winthrop Astor Chanler and Margaret Ward Chanler, an author and musician.
11 Facts About Theodore Chanler
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Theodore Chanler's godfather was President Theodore Chanler Roosevelt, who attended his christening in Newport in 1902.
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Theodore Chanler's grandmother was a half-sister of F Marion Crawford and a niece of Julia Ward Howe.
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Theodore Chanler studied piano while a youngster in Boston, and then studied piano under Buhling and counterpoint under Goetschius at the Institute of Musical Art in New York City.
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Theodore Chanler became a music critic for the Boston Herald in 1934, and taught in Massachusetts in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Theodore Chanler was a regular contributor to the American magazine Modern Music.
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Theodore Chanler composed a ballet, an opera, choral pieces, works for chamber ensemble, and piano solo pieces.
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Theodore Chanler taught at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In Paris in 1931, Theodore Chanler was married to Maria Sargent, the daughter of Ricardo de Acosta.
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Theodore Chanler was the sister of Aida de Acosta, Mercedes de Acosta, Rita de Acosta, and Mrs Frederick Shaw of London.
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Theodore Chanler died at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on July 27,1961.