Adam Hamilton (organist)
Adam Hamilton (* 1820 in Edinburgh ; † 1907 ) was an English organist, conductor, violist and composer.
Hamilton studied for four years with Friedrich Schneider in Dessau. From 1847 he was conductor of the Edinburgh Harmonic Society , and from 1866 to 1883 conductor of the Edinburgh Choral Union . As an organist, he gave concerts on the organ in St. John's Chapel, built by his brother David Hamilton . He was married to a daughter of Karl Drechsler , with whom he had three daughters, the violinists Bertha Drechsler Adamson and Emmy Drechsler Hamilton and the pianist Lucie Drechsler Hamilton , and a son, the musician Carl Drechsler-Hamilton .
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- Drechsler-Hamilton, Hamilton-Drechsler, Hamilton. In: European female instrumentalists of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sophie Drinker Institute
- Nicholas Thistlethwaite: The Making of the Victorian Organ. Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-66364-4 , p. 178.
- The Musical World. Volume 17, J. Alfredo Novello, 1842, p. 38.
- Peter Horton: Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies. Volume 3, Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1-351-55633-0 , p. 177.
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| SURNAME | Hamilton, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English organist, conductor, violist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edinburgh |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1907 |