Daniel Gregory Mason and Frederick Shepherd Converse: Violin SonatasKevin Lawrence, violin Phillip Bush, piano Both Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871 1940) and Daniel Gregory Mason (1873 1953) were pupils of John Knowles Paine at Harvard and members of the New England School of composers. As such, they drew inspiration primarily from the German tradition as manifested in the music of Beethoven and Brahms. In Converse's Violin Sonata in A Major, Opus 1 (1900), the clarity of the sonata form structure in the first