Clarence Eddy

Clarence Eddy (* 1851, † 1937) was an American organist and composer.

The pupil of Dudley Buck was organist at the First Congregational Church and the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago and also traveled as a concert organist by the United States. On trips to Europe, he studied in Berlin with Carl August Haupt and in Paris with Cesar Franck, Charles- Marie Widor and Alexandre Guilmant, whose first concert tour in the U.S. he organized.

Eddy customized designs to several major organs, stepped forth in his later years as a music critic and composed some organ works, including a fist - fantasy, a festival Prelude on the Old 100th, and a prelude in A minor. He was married to the singer and music teacher Sara Hershey. Published in 2001, William Osborne, a biography of Eddie's under the title Clarence Eddy ( 1851-1937 ), Dean of American Organists (ISBN 0-913499 17- X).

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  • Pupils of Alexandre Guilmant
  • Organ Historical Society Catalog - Osborne: Clarence Eddy (1851-1937), Dean of American Organists
  • American composer
  • Classic organist
  • Born in 1851
  • Died in 1937
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