Why do I refer to myself as The Unknown Composer? It’s obvious, isn’t it? Only my family and friends know what I do in my spare time. Otherwise, the world at large has no idea that some probably insignificant music is being composed at the piano in my living room. As The Unknown Composer, though, I can tell you that I am included in a book of the lives of important composers, so I am referenced in print. The book:

The Story Of One Hundred Great Composers
Helen L. Kaufmann
Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1943

If you turn to page 226, you’ll find my listing starting in the middle of the page and continuing on
over to page 227. Of course, I have no dreams of immortality in music history, but I do wish that little I have done during my life will somehow be preserved and not discarded when I am gone. That is the basic reason for this website and my albums. As far as thoughts of fame, perish the thought. I always like to tell an audience that when Mozart was my age, he had already been dead for almost fifty years. Imagine what he might have accomplished had he lived as long as I have. So here is what Helen Kaufmann has to say about people like me who write music for their own enjoyment.

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