Introduction

Biography

In his youth, Loom­is won a three year schol­ar­ship at the Na­tion­al Con­ser­va­tory. There he stu­died with An­to­nín Dvoř­ák, and quick­ly be­came a fa­vored pu­pil of the Bo­he­mi­an com­pos­er.

He gained his great­est fame from the col­lect­ion Lyr­ics of the Red Man, set­tings of na­tive Am­er­ican songs re­scored for pi­ano.

Loomis al­so com­posed works for child­ren, and nu­mer­ous stage works, in­clud­ing com­ic op­eras, pan­to­mimes, so­na­tas for vio­lin and for pi­ano, and in­ci­dent­al mu­sic for nu­mer­ous stage plays.

Little of his mu­sic was com­mitted to disc, al­though some of the lyr­ics were re­leased by Nax­os Re­cords on the Mar­co Po­lo la­bel.