wrote parts for in several scores as well as arranging much music for it. In his later years he also, unexpectedly, became deeply interested in jazz, and wrote some works for jazz band. His notable students include Arthur Hartmann, Kay Swift, Samuel Gardner and Francis Judd Cooke, who studied with him for two years in Medfield, Massachusetts. Loeffler died in 1935 in Medfield, at the age of 74. Works Loeffler was a fastidious composer who composed carefully, frequently revising his compositions. Some of his works are lost. His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles (after Maeterlinck), La Bonne Chanson (after Verlaine), A Pagan Poem (after Virgil), and Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies (to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan), and the chamber works Music for Four Stringed Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano. The Music for Four Stringed Instruments was written in 1917 after his friend John Jay Chapman's son Victor became the first American aviator to die in World War I. Chapman published his son's letters in 1917and Loeffler was inspired to write this string quartet as a combination meditation and memorial. His Divertissement for violin and orchestra was premiered in Berlin in 1905 by Karel Halíř, under the baton of Richard Strauss, at the same concert at which Halíř premiered the revised version of Sibelius's Violin Concerto. Fritz Kreisler and Eugène Ysaÿe had declined to play the Divertissement because of its technical demands. He composed the Fantastic Concert for cello and orchestra, which premiered in 1894 with Alwin Schroeder as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Entertainment for violin and orchestra (1895). He composed the symphonic poem La Villanelle du Diable in 1901. This work is inspired by the eponymous poem by Rollinat, and dedicated to Franz Kneisel. It was premiered in April 1902 by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Wilhelm Gericke, and published by Schirmer in 1905. He later reworked the piece for orchestra and organ; this version was performed by the BSO in January 2010. His additional chamber works are: Sonata for violin and piano (1886), String Quartet (1889) String Quintet (1889) Octet for two clarinets, two violins, viola and cello, harp and double bass (1896) Divertissement Espagnol for alto saxophone and orchestra (1900) Carnival Ballade for flute, oboe, saxophone, bassoon and piano (1902)