George Whiting

George Elbridge Whiting ( born September 14, 1840 in Holliston, Massachusetts, † October 14, 1923 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American composer and organist.

Whiting founded at the age of fifteen years in Hartford / Connecticut a Beethoven Society. In 1862 he went to Boston, then to New York, where he studied with George Washbourne Morgan. It joined Studies at William T. Best in Liverpool and Robert Radecke in Berlin.

From 1874 to 1878 he was organist at the Music Hall of Boston and organ teacher at the New England Conservatory of Music. From 1878 he was organist at the Music Hall of Cincinnati / Ohio and taught at the local College of Music. In 1883 he returned as a teacher at the New England Conservatory.

Whiting composed masses and cantatas, some orchestral works, organ works and songs. He also published two textbooks for the organ.

Compositions

  • Mass in C Minor, 1872
  • Mass in F Minor, 1874
  • Dream Pictures, cantata, 1874
  • The Tale of the Viking, cantata, 1878
  • Leonora, cantata, 1880

Textbooks

  • The organist (Boston, 1870)
  • The First Six Months on the organ ( Boston, 1871)
  • Composer ( romance )
  • American composer
  • Americans
  • Born in 1840
  • Died in 1923
  • Man
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