Frederick Ayres was an American

United States

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 composer. Born in Binghamton, New York

Binghamton, New York

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, he studied at Cornell University

Cornell University

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; further study, this time in music, came with Edgar Stillman Kelley

Edgar Stillman Kelley

Edgar Stillman Kelley was an American composer, conductor, teacher, and writer on music. He is sometimes associated with the Indianist movement in American music.-Life:...

 and Arthur Foote

Arthur Foote

Arthur William Foote was an American classical composer, and a member of the "Boston Six." The other five were George Whitefield Chadwick, Amy Beach, Edward MacDowell, John Knowles Paine, and Horatio Parker.The modern tendency is to view Foote’s music as “Romantic” and “European” in light of the...

. Ayres lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Colorado Springs, Colorado

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 for many years, during which time he became a "musical spokesman" for the Rocky Mountain

Rocky Mountains

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 area; he died there in 1926. Among his compositions were an overture

Overture

Overture in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera...

, From the Plains; a string quartet

String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group...

 and some other pieces of chamber music

Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...

, and some song

Song

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