John Knowels Paine (1839-1906) American

John Knowles Paine was born in 1839 in Portland, Maine. He came from a musically talented family. Under the tutelage of Herman Kotzchmar, Paine studied organ, piano and harmony. He later went to Germany to study composition and counterpoint. In 1875 he became a professor of music at Harvard University, and was the first professor of music and the first American to write a symphony in the United States.