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JAMES FRISKIN was born in Glasgow on the 3rd of March 1886. His early musical talent as pianist and composer resulted in a piano scholarship to the Royal College of Music at the age of only fourteen. Five years of piano study with Edward Dannreuther followed; then in 1905 he was awarded a scholarship to study composition with Charles Villiers Stanford, the outstanding composition professor of the day. In 1914 he emigrated to the USA. Based in New York, he taught at the Institute of Musical Arts. Later he was an original faculty member of the Juilliard Graduate School, where he taught until his death.
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