After graduating from
Harvard University in 1894, Hill studied music in
Boston with
John Knowles Paine,
Frederick Field Bullard (de),
Margaret Ruthven Lang, and
George Elbridge Whiting, and in
Paris with
Charles Marie Widor. Finally, on his return to Boston, he pursued studies with
George Whitefield Chadwick. He joined the Harvard faculty in 1908, remaining until his retirement in 1940. His later-famous pupils included
Leonard Bernstein,
Roger Sessions,
Elliott Carter,
Walter Piston,
Ross Lee Finney and
Virgil Thomson. Among a range of other works, Hill wrote four
symphonies, four
symphonic poems, two
orchestral
pantomimes, two orchestral
suites, two
piano concertos, one
violin concerto, one
cor anglais concerto,
chamber music,
jazz studies for two
pianos, one
choral ode, and one
cantata. He died in 1960 in
Francestown, New Hampshire. ==Bibliography==