Charles Trowbridge Haubiel (born Delta, Ohio

Delta, Ohio

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, 1892 - died Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, 1978) was an American

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 composer. He studied in New York City

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, and spent eight years teaching piano at the Institute of Musical Art in that city before moving on to New York University

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. His music has been described as a combination of Johannes Brahms

Johannes Brahms

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 and Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

. He composed three opera

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s in addition to much orchestra

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l and chamber music

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. His set of variations for orchestra, Karma, won a prize in the 1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition

1928 International Columbia Graphophone Competition

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