Dates

• Existence: April 17, 1885 - July 28, 1980

Biography

Cecil Burleigh was born April 17, 1885, in Wyoming, NY. As a young child, Burleigh began showing interest in music. He studied violin and theory and during his teens he began composing. He traveled abroad to study from 1903-1905 to the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, where he developed his skills in composition with Hugo Leichtentritt and violin with Anton Witek. Burleigh returned to the United States to continue his education at the Chicago Music College, where he studied composition with Felix Borowski and violin with Emile Sauret. In 1907-1909, he began performing in Canada and throughout the United States. He began teaching from 1911-1914 at the Western Institute of Music and Drama, Morningside College, and Montana State University. Burleigh resumed his studies in New York where he studied under Leopold Auer and Ernst Bloch. However, he resumed his teaching career (1921-1955) at the University of Wisconsin.

Cecil Burleigh died May 8, 1996, in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sources: - Hitchcock, H. Wiley, and Stanley Sadie, eds. New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Vol. I. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries of Music, 1986. - Cecil Burleigh Collection: Wisconsin Music Archives. 2007. Mill Music Library. 30 April 2008 /music.library.wisc.edu/wma/papers/burleigh/burleigh.htm>.

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