Pupils of Felix Alexandre Guilmant (original) (raw)

Jacob F. Adelfer

Louis Marie Fran�ois Andlauer
(1877-1915)

Organist at Notre-Dames-des-Champs and Eglise Saint-Eloi in Paris.
He wrote 'Two Short Pieces for Organ', published in book one of "Les Maitres Contemporains de l'Orgue" in 1911.

George Whitfield Andrews
(1861-1932)

Dr George Whitfield Andrewswas a pupil of Rheinberger, Guilmant and others. He became musical director in Oberlin in 1903, where he also had studied. He was the organist of Second Church in Oberlin for almost 50 years. At the Oberlin Conservatory he taught organ and composition since 1886. Andrews was one of the founders of the American Guild of Organists.
He wrote several compositions, including the following:

William I. Andrus

Emile Avin�

Studied with Guilmant until 1904.

John Bachelder

George L. Backus

Alfred Baehrens

Augustin Bari�
(1883-1915)

Augustin Bari� was blind from his birth. He studied organ with Guilmant and Widor. Later he was appointed organist of the Eglise Saint-Germaine-des-Pr�s in Paris. He composed a few works and died at the early age of 32 years during the First World War. He was succeeded by Andr� Marchal.
Compositions:

O.B. Bass

William D. Belknap

Elizabeth Benedict

John Victor Bergquist
(1877-1935)

Organist in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Studied with Guilmant about 1900.
He composed three sonatas for organ. Only one has been published: Sonata in C-minor (1902).

Joseph-Arthur Bernier
(1877-1944)

Information from The Canadian Encyclopedia:
Joseph-Arthur Bernier was born on March 19, 1877 in L�vis, Qu�bec, Canada.
He received his early musical education from his mother and continued his musical studies in Quebec City with Gustave Gagnon and Phil�as Roy (organ and piano) while completing his general education at the Coll�ge de L�vis. He was organist 1892-1908 at St-Sauveur Church and 1908-17 at Notre-Dame-de-Jacques-Cartier Church in Quebec City. He completed his training 1902-3 in Paris with Alexandre Guilmant (organ) and F�lix Fourdrain (composition). The cellist Jean G�rardy, the violinist Ovide Musin, and other musicians sought his services as an accompanist. In 1903 he became a member of the Soci�t� des auteurs et compositeurs de Paris. In Montreal he inaugurated the organs of the churches of Saint-Pierre in 1908, Saint-Jean-Baptiste in 1915, and Sacr�-Coeur in 1917, and several US churches invited him to perform the same service. He gave recitals in Buffalo in 1901, Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905, Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1910, Phoenix in 1915, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, in 1917. He also played in Toronto in 1914, and in Cap-St-Ignace, Qu�bec, in 1918. In 1917 he became organist at the Union musicale de Qu�bec and at St-Jean-Baptiste Church in Qu�bec City, a post he held until his death. At Laval University 1922-44 he taught, among others, Charles-Eug�ne Albert, Dant�s Belleau, Clotilde Coulombe, Rolland-G. Gingras, and Omer L�tourneau. He served 1910-11 and 1912-13 as president of the AMQ.
Bernier died on April 28, 1944 in Qu�bec City, Canada.
Bernier's compositions include four masses for female voices; several motets published chiefly by Qu�bec City's Procure g�n�rale de musique; pieces for organ, violin (Berceuse), oboe (Pastorale), and cello (Cantil�ne), published in Paris by A. D�bert (1903); a Mazurka for piano (Lavigueur et Hutchison 1906); and some other secular music.
His M�ditation for organ was published in Canadian Musical Heritage (CMH), vol 4a.

(Joseph) Ermend Bonnal
(1880-1944)

French organist and composer. Studied with Guilmant in 1904. He wrote many works for organ, chamber music and songs. Bonnal was organist in Bayonne and later succeeded Tournemire at the Sainte-Clotilde in Paris, where he remained until his death.

Joseph �lie Georges Marie Bonnet
(1884-1944)

(Photo: Collection of the Library of Congres) Student of Guilmant from 1901 to 1906. He became organist of the Church of Saint Eustache in Paris in March 1906 and got the first price for organ at the conservatory in July 1906. Bonnet was a close friend of Guilmant. He wrote a composition (Lamento) in memoriam of Guilmant's wife, and another piece (Pie Jesu) in memoriam of Guilmant. Bonnet succeeded Guilmant in 1911 as the organist of the Soci�t� des Concerts du Conservatoire in Paris. Bonnet was very famous as a concert organist, and he also published a lot of old organ music. The first Schott edition of Guilmant's works after his death was edited by Bonnet, in co-operation with Eaglefield Hull and Lemare.

There is avery good website on Joseph Bonnet, containing a complete list of his compositions, pictures and bibliographical information.

Roger Boucher
(1885-1915)

Pupil of Guilmant and Widor. He became organist of the Eglise Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin in Paris. Roger Boucher died in the First World War in 1915.
He published only one composition, a Cantabile for organ in book two of "Les Maitres Contemporains de l'Orgue" in 1911.

Nadia Juliette Boulanger
(1887-1979)

Nadia Juliette Boulanger studied with Guilmant in 1905.
Her father was professor at the Conservatory in Paris. Her sister Lili Juliette (1893-1918) was a great composer. She wrote many fine works in her short life and won the Prix of Rome in 1913.
Nadia Boulanger was very musical and started studying at the Conservatory in 1897, only ten years old. She studied composition with Gabriel Faur� and organ with Guilmant en Louis Vierne.
In 1921 she became professor of harmony, counterpoint and composition at the American Conservatory of Music in Fontainebleau.
Nadia Boulanger was a famous teacher herself. Among her pupils are many important and well known American composers of the twentieth century, including Aaron Copland, Philip Glass and Charles Fisk.
Among her compositions are:

Joseph Boulnois
(1884-1918)

Joseph Boulnois was born on January 28, 1884 in a small French village called Verneuil-en-Halatte. As a young boy he started playing the organ and soon he became organist in the neighbourhood. He studied at the Paris Conservatory and moved to Paris in 1904, but he continued his appointment as organist in the village of Pont-Sainte-Maxence. He studied with Dubois, Guilmant, Faur� en Vierne. In 1908 he became organist of the Church of the Sainte-Elisabeth-du-Temple in Paris.
In 1914 he was called for duty in the army during the First World War. Only a few weeks before the end of the war he died in action on October 20, 1918.
Some of his compositions are:

Emile Bourdon
(1884-1974)

Emile Bourdon studied with Guilmant until 1911. For health reasons he had to leave the conservatory in 1911 to stay in a sanatorium.
He lived as an organist in Monaco, where he played the Mutin organ of the Cathedral, inaugurated by himself on April 8, 1922. He was professor for organ at the Conservatory in Nice until 1951. Emile Bourdon retired as cathedral organist in 1968. Marcel Dupr� and Emile Bourdon were close friends.
Compositions:

Clarence W. Bowers

Cyprien Boyer
(1853-1926)

Born on March 16, 1853 in Saint-Martial-de-Nabirat (Dordogne, France). Cyprien Boyer was organist of the Petit S�minaire in Bergerac. He died on September 9, 1926 in Perigueux, France.
Compositions:

William Brice

Sebastian Howard Brown
(born in 1903)

Organ and music teacher in Middlesex. In 1965 he published his 'Wedding Music for Dan and Thelma'.

Minnie B. Caldwell

Minnie B. Caldwell has been the conductor of the Chapel Choir of Ann Arbor High School.

Tracy J. Cannon

William C. Carl
(1865-1936)

William Cane Carl, born in Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1865, studied in Paris with Guilmant in 1891/1892. He and Guilmant became good friends. William Carl became organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Newark, New Jersey in 1882. In 1892 he became organist of the First Presbyterian Church at Fifth Avenue in New York City. During the second tour of Guilmant in America in 1898 William Carl founded theGuilmant Organ School. Since October 1899 this School had his lessons at the First Presbyterian Church. William Carl died on December 8, 1936 in New York. The Guilmant Organ School left the First Presbyteran Church in 1963 and closed in the early seventies.
William Carl published many music books containing compositions of several composers, like the "Ecclesiae Organum" (Organ Music for The Church Service). He edited three organ albums with works of Guilmant for Schott.

Alexandre Cellier
(1883-1968)

Alexandre Eug�ne Cellier was born on June 17, 1883. He died on March 4, 1968.
Cellier studied with Guilmant until 1908. He was the organist of the Temple d'Etoile in Paris.
Compositions:

Elvira L. Chenevert

Frank Martin Church
(1874-1959)

Frank Martin Church was born in Sandusky, Ohio on April 20, 1874. He studied in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1894 - 1898. After his graduation from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1901 he studied with Guilmant and Widor from 1903 - 1905.
He made carier as organist, teacher and composer. He was director of music at Columbia College, Baylor University at Waco, Texas, Greensboro College and Athens College in Alabama. Frank Church retired in 1953. He died in Chevy Chase, Maryland on September 28, 1959.
For a list of compositions (mostly unpublished) take a look at theOberlin College Archives.

J. Arthur Colburn

James D.D. Comey
(1869-?)

Musical teacher. Born in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts in March 1869. He died in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts.

David E. Crozier

S.D. Cushing

C. Will Day

Abel D�caux
(1869-1943)

Abel-Marie D�caux was born in 1869 in Auffay, France. He studied composition with Jules Massenet and organ with Widor at the Paris Conservatory and Guilmant at the Schola Cantorum. He was the organist titulair of the organ of the famous Sacr�-Coeur in Paris during 20 years (1903-1923). On October 16, 1919, D�caux inaugurated the great 'new' Sacr�-Coeur Organ, in collaboration with Marcel Dupr� and Charles-Marie Widor.
D�caux teached organ at the Schola Cantorum in Paris and also in the United States of America from 1923 to 1935 at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. After his return to France in 1935 he teached at the C�sar Frank organ school.
He was famous as an improvisor, but published only two compositions:

D�caux was one of the performers at the Guilmant memorial concert on March 12, 1937. D�caux died six years later, on March 19, 1943.

Gaston M. Dethier
(1875-1958)

Gaston Dethier was born in Belgium, but lived in the USA.
He composed a Procession Solennelle, published by J. Fischer in 1908.

Clarence Dickinson
(1873-1969)

Studied with Moritz Moszkowski, Alexandre Guilmant and Gabriel Piern� in Paris. Dickinson was organist of the Brick Presbyterian Church in New York City and director of music at the Union Theological Seminary. One of the founders of the American Guild of Organists.

James T. Duncan

John W. Dunham

Marcel Dupr�
(1886-1971)

Marcel Dupr� was born on May 3, 1886 in Rouen. His father Albert was a friend of Guilmant, who knew Marcel from his birth. He got his first lessons from his father, and studied at the Conservatory with Di�mer, Guilmant and Widor.
In his life Dupr� became one of the most famous organists of the twentieth century. He won the Prix de Rome in 1914 for his cantate 'Psych�'. Famous as improviser he also wrote many compositions, most of them for organ. Dupr� succeeded Widor in 1934 as organist of the Saint-Sulpice in Paris. In 1926 he moved to Meudon and bought the house organ of Guilmant, which he installed in his own house. Dupr� died on May 30, 1971 in Meudon.
There is awebsite dedicated to Marcel Dupr�.
A short list of his compositions (not complete!):

Louis H. Eaton

Organist and choirmaster in Milwaukee. Leader of the boys choir of Saint Paul's Church in Milwaukee from 1888.

Clarence Eddy
(1851-1937)

Hiram Clarence Eddy was a pupil of Dudley Buck. He was the organist of the First Congregational Church and the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. In his time he was a famous concert organist, playing many recitals all over the United States. He went to Paris to study with Franck, Guilmant and Widor. He became a good friend of Guilmant and arranged the first concert trip of Guilmant to the United States. He didn't compose many works himself.
Compositions:

Charles S. Elliot

Dr. Eversden

Hans C. Fell

Elizabeth Field

Mary Chappel Fisher

F�lix Fourdrain
(1880-1923)

F�lix Fourdrain was born in Paris at February 3, 1880. He got his first lessons at the Niedermeyer School. His father was organist, and he replaced him at age of twelve. He then studied organ with Guilmant and Widor at the Paris Conservatory and composition with Jules Massenet, who became a close friend. Fourdrain won the first price for organ in 1902.
After his studies he spent all of his time for composing. He learned to know Henri Cain and Arthur Bern�de, who wrote a libretto for him, and he wrote his first opera in 1903. After that he wrote more opera's and lyrical works.
At the time his success became larger F�lix Fourdrain died on October 23, 1923 in Paris.
He also composed an Offertoire (G major) for organ and published an album of Improvisations for harmonium (reed organ).

Charles Galloway
(????-1932)

Charles Galloway was the organist of Saint Peter's Episcopal Church in Saint-Louis, USA, director of a choral group called "the Apollo Club" of Graham Chapel from 1909 to 1932 and the organist of Washington University Saint Louis.
He was appointed as the official Exposition organist at the Saint Louis' World Fair in 1904. He played the opening concert at June 9.

Harvey Bartlett Gaul
(1881-1945)

Pupil of Guilmant and Widor. As organist he served the Emmanuel Church in Cleveland, Ohio, USA and after that Calvary Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He composed a lot of music, including many organ works. Most of them have been forgotten.
Compositions:
Organ Works

Other Works

Rena Gill

Mary Hendrix Gillies

Francisco Godinez
(died in 1902)

Organist at the Guadalajara Cathedral.

Mrs. George L. Gold

Ina Goodwin

Ronald M. Grant

Tina Mae Haines

Organist in (the neighbourhood of) Chicago at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Philip Hale

Bertha Harker

Mrs. George N. Holt

Hamlin H. Hunt

Jean Hur�(1877-1930)

Jean Hur� was organist and composer. He studied with Guilmant and Gigout. In 1925 he was appointed organist of the �glise Saint-Augustin in Paris. Among a number of works for orchestra and chamber music, he published only a few compositions for organ:

Georges Jacob
(1877-1950)

Georges Jacob was the organist of the Church of Saint-Ferdinand-des-Ternes in Paris. He became organist of the Conservatory and played many 'Concerts Historiques' at the Schola Cantorum. Compositions:

Edmund Jacques

Harry H. Kellogg

Edwin Arthur Kraft
(1883-1962)

Edwin Kraft studies in Paris with Guilmant and Widor. He was municipal organist of the city of Atlanta. Later he became organist of Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. He did not compose many works, but published a number of organ transcriptions. His only organ composition is a Polish Lullaby.

Edward Kreiser
(1869-1917)

Organist of the Independance Boulevard Church in Kansas City.
Compositions:

Georges Kri�ger
(1885-1916)

Kri�ger was a pupil of Gigout and Vierne, but also studied organ with Guilmant. He was appointed to be choir organist of the church of La Madeleine in Paris. He composed a Toccata (e minor) for organ, that is recorded by John Scott Whiteley on the CD 'The romantic organ'.
During the first world war, Kri�ger had to fight as a soldier. He died in action in 1916.
Compositions:

John Hermann Loud
(1873)

Organist of Park Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied with Guilmant in Paris. He composed a number of works for organ:

Theta Mae Lynn

Janie MacLean

Francis Machlin

Jessie C. Marshall

Frederick Maxson
(1862-1934)

Organist of the First Baptist Church and the Central Congregational Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He played the inauguration concert of the Grace Church organ in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on February 11, 1909. Some compositions for organ have been published:

Frank T. Miles

Charles F. Morse

Helen B. Munn

Lawrence J. Munson

Effie C. Murdock

Harold Bond Nason

Henri Nibelle
(1883-1966)

Henri Jules Joseph Nibelle was born in Briare. He studied with Guilmant, Vierne, Gigout and Faur�. As organist he worked as choir organist at the Versailles Cathedral and the churche of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul in Paris. From 1912 to 1931 he was 'organist titulaire' of the church of Saint-Francois-de-Sales in Paris. He served this church as 'ma�tre de chapelle' until 1959. Henri Nibelle died in Nice, France in 1966.
A number of compositions have been published:

Homer Albert Norris
(1860-1920)

Studied with Guilmant, Dubois and Gigout. He was organist of Saint George's Church in New York City. The only organ composition published was 'Christmas Fantasy on Antioch'.

Ella Scoble Opperman

Millard Ortman

George A. Parker

A.R. Patterson

J. Alfred Pennington

Sandford A. Pette

Achille Philip
(1878-1959)

Studied at the Paris Conservatory. He founded the Quatuor Fran�ais. Philip was organist of the Abbey Chuch of Val-de-Gr�ce in Paris from 1903 until 1950 and professor of organ and harmony at the Schola Cantorum from 1904 until 1950. Every year he conducted the passions of Saint John and Saint Matthew by Johann Sebastian Bach and the Requiem of Mozart in his church.
He composed various works:

Minnie A. Plummer

Emile Poillot
(1886-1948)

Studied with Guilmant until 1911. He became organist of the Cathedral of Saint-B�nigne in Dijon in 1912, a post that he occupied until his dead in 1948.

John W. Pommer jr.

Charles Quef
(1873-1931)

Charles Quef was born on November 1st, 1873 in Lille, France. He studied at the conservatory of his birthplace. Later he went to Paris, where he studied with Charles-Marie Widor, Alexandre Guilmant and Louis Vierne. He was organist at a number of churches in Paris, like the �glise Sainte-Marie-des-Batignolles (1895-1898) and the �glise Saint-Laurent (1898). In 1898 he got the First Prize for organ at the conservatory. After that he was appointed as assistant organist at La Trinit� in Paris succeeding Th�odore Salom�, where he worked with Guilmant. After the resignation of Guilmant in 1900 he became the organiste titulaire at this church in November 1901. He was organist here until his death on July 2, 1931.
Quef composed a lot of music for organ, piano, vocal works and also orchestral and chamber music. Some works are:

Marc de Ranse
(1881-1951)

Student of the Schola Cantorum with Guilmant and d'Indy. Organist of the Church of Saint-Louis-d'Antin in Paris until 1933. He was director of the Institut Gr�gorien in Paris and founded the choir "Le Choeur Mixte".
Compositions:

Edward Recklin

Walter Guernsey Reynolds
(1873-1953)

Organist in Seattle, Washington, USA. He published a book with ten offertories on American Hymn Tunes for Organ in 1909, dedicated to Guilmant.

Albert Riemenschneider
(1878-1950)

Born on August 31, 1878. Died on July 21, 1950. Studied in Paris with Widor and Guilmant. He was the son of Georg Riemenschneider (1848-1913), famous composer, organist and conductor in Germany and the Netherlands. Albert Riemenschneider was a great admirer of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Baldwin-Wallace College has founded aRiemenschneider Bach Institutein 1969, containing a large library with manuscripts, books, sheet music and more about Bach.
He founded theBaldwin-Wallace College's Conservatory in 1899.
He published "371 Harmonized Chorales and 69 Chorale Melodies with Figured Bass by Johann Sebastian Bach".

Minetta Riggs

James Hotchkiss Rogers
(1857-1940)

American organist and composer. He studied with Clarence Eddy and later in Paris with Guilmant and Widor. He was appointed organist of the First Unitarian Church in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He wrote works for organ, piano and songs.

Frank W. Sanderson

Frederick William Schlieder

American organist and pianist. In 1914 he became president of the New York State Music Teachers Association. At that time he was organist of the Collegiate Church of Saint Nicholas, New York. Later he teached at the Theory Department of the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.
He published the book "Lyric Composition Through Improvisation: First Year's Training In Formal Musical Self-Expression" in 1927.

Carl G. Schmidt

Organist in New York City.

Alphonse Schmitt
(1875-1912)

Alphonse Schmitt was born in the Alsace in France. He studied with Guilmant until 1901. Choirmaster of the �glise Saint-Philip-du-Roule in Paris.
Compositions (all for organ):

Steade L. Schofield

Leonora Scott

Archibald H. Sessions

D�odat de S�verac
(1872-1921)

Born on July 20, 1872. Studied at the Schola Cantorum with d'Indy (composition) and Guilmant (organ). He ended his study in 1907 and then left Paris. He composed only a few organ works. Other compositions are for piano and vocal. His Suite pour Orgue was dedicated to Guilmant. De S�verac died on March 24, 1921.

C.G. Sheldon

Clarence E. Shepherd

Mrs. Laura Grant Short

Herbert Sisson

J. Edmund Skiff

William N. Slade

Bertram Smith Webber

Ida Gilger Spicer

Herbert F. Sprague

Sydney Sprague

Walter A. Squire

George Waring Stebbins
(1869-1930)

Studies in the USA with Huntington Woodman and in Paris with Guilmant. He became organist of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Brooklyn, later also of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. Compositions (only for organ):

Frederick B. Stiven

Samuel Tudor Strang

Organist in Philadelphia. Composed a number of organ works:

D.A. Swadkins

William E. Taylor

Fernand de La Tombelle
(1854-1928)

Fernand Fouent Baron de La Tombelle was born in Paris on August 3, 1854. His mother was a fine pianist and became his first teacher. Later he studied with Guilmant, Dubois and Saint-Sa�ns. He composed many works, not only for the organ, but also for piano, vocals, orchestra and chamber music. He died on August 13, 1928.
Fernand de La Tombelle was a very good organist and well known in his days. He played inauguration concerts, like the concert of the new organ of the Cathedral in Laon on February 19, 1899, together with Charles Tournemire.
Some of his compositions are:

Juliette Toutain (1901)

Everett Ellsworth Truette
(1861-1933)

American music composer and publisher from Boston. He was a famous organist at his time and had a lot of students. He studied in Europe with William Thomas Best and Alexandre Guilmant.
Some works published by him were:
Works composed by himself

Works composed by others

Other publications

Albert M. Tucker

Arthur H. Turner

Louis Vierne
(1870-1937)

French organist and composer. Born in Poitiers on October 8, 1870. He was almost blind when he was born. At a very early age Vierne got interest in music. He studied piano. Ten years old he went to Paris, where he heard C�sar Franck play. This impressed him very much. At the Institution Nationale des Jeunes Aveugles, where Vierne lived and went to school since 1881, a large Cavaill�-Coll organ was built in 1882/1883. Now Vierne got the possibility to study the organ more and more. In 1889 he went to the Paris Conservatory to study with Franck. In 1892 he became the assistant organist of Charles-Marie Widor at the Saint-Sulpice. A year later he published his first opus number: the Allegretto, opus 1.
After the death of mr. Sargent in March 1900, Vierne was appointed the new organist of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. He would be the first organist of this church till he died in 1937. In January 1911 Vierne succeeded Guilmant at the organ class of the Conservatory. Later that year he became teacher at the Schola Cantorum.
Louis Vierne was a famous organist in his times. He had concert tours in the USA and Canada. His improvisation skills were tremendous. Vierne played many organ recitals. His 1750th recital at Notre-Dame cathedral would be his last. On June 2, 1937 he died during this concert, while starting an improvisation.
For more information about Louis Vierne, take a look at theexcellent websiteof my friend Denis Ruiz, who unfortunately died in 2003.

Ren� Vierne
(1878-1918)

Brother of Louis Vierne. Born on March 11, 1878 in Lille. He died in action during the first world war, reported being missed on May 29, 1918.
Ren� had organ lessons with his brother, and later at the Paris Conservatory with Guilmant. He won the 'Premier Prix d'Orgue et Improvisation' in 1906. In 1902 he was appointed 'Organist de Choeur' of the church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris, and from 1904 he was the 'Organist Titulair' of this church.
Compositions:

Many thanks to Andreas Willscher for the complete worklist and a biography of Ren� Vierne.

Belle S. Wade

Minnie A. Wagner

William S. Walth

Charles A. Weiss
(18-? - 1935)

Organist in Chicago. Published a Christmas Suite for organ, a Sonata for organ in g minor (1925) and some Chorale Preludes.

Charlotte Wells Saenger

Flora Ellis Wells

Gustin Wright

C.L. Werner
(1862-1902)

C.L. Werner probably was the only German pupil of Guilmant. He played a concert in the Trocad�ro Palace together with Guilmant in May 1892.
Werner published a book with "7 leicht ausf�hrbare Orgelst�cke" (seven easy to play organ works) containing the Communion opus 74 of Guilmant.

Francis Lodowick York
(1861-1955)

American organist and teacher. Worked and lived in Detroit since about 1875. He was the organist of Christ Church in Detroit since 1896. He taught piano, organ and compostion at the Detroit Conservatory of Music and the Ypsilanti State Normal College.
He published "A Practical Introduction To Composition, Harmony Simplified" in 1926. His only organ composition published was a Spring Song (Canon) in 1907.
Francis York wrote acentury box letteron December 30, 1900, to be opened one century later. You can read this letter online.

Harry Zehm

William E. Zeuch (????-1963)

William E. Zeuch came from Chicago, where he had his first organ lessons with Peter C. Lutkin. Later he went to Paris to study with Guilmant.
After he returned to Chicago he became the Chicago representative of the Aeolian Organ Company in 1912. In 1917 he became vice president of the Skinner Organ Company until 1955, when he retired. He was organist in Chicago on several church organs. Since 1913 he was also municipal organist of the city of Atlanta in Georgia.
William Zeuch was a well know concert organist and he played many inauguration concerts of new Skinner organs.
He died on June 2, 1963 in Boston.