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John J. Becker

John J. Becker, “The Musical Crusader of Saint Paul,” was a number among the band of early modernists creating the so-called “American Five,” along with Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, Wallingford Riegger, and Henry Cowell. A 1905 graduate from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Becker researched with Carl Busch and Wilhelm …

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