Augustus Stephen Vogt

Augustus Stephen Vogt (born August 14, 1861 in Washington / Ontario ; † September 17, 1926 in Toronto ) was a Canadian music teacher, choir director, organist and composer.

Vogt was organist at St. James Lutheran Church in Elmira at the age of twelve . After training with LH Parker , he became organist at the First Methodist Church in St. Thomas / Ontario in 1878 . From 1881 to 1884 he studied at the New England Conservatory in Boston with SA Emery and HM Dunham , then from 1885 to 1888 at the Leipzig Conservatory with Salomon Jadassohn , Willy Rehberg , Carl Reinecke and Adolf Ruthardt .

From 1888 to 1906 he was the organist and choirmaster at Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto. In addition, he taught organ and piano at Toronto College of Music , various girls' schools and from 1892 at Toronto College of Music , whose director he became in 1913 (as the successor to Edward Fisher ). He was Secretary of the Canadian College of Organists (1889–92), President of the Canadian Society of Musicians (1893–95) and Fellow of the Royal College of Organists . At the Universal Exhibition of Chicago he performed as an organist.

Since the mid-1890s Vogt wrote as a music critic under the pseudonym Moderato for the magazine Saturday Night . In 1894 he founded the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir , which he directed until 1917 and with which he organized annual festivals with orchestras such as the Pittsburgh Orchestra and the Chicago Orchestra from 1902 . After a study trip through Europe 1913-14, he devoted himself to reforming the education system at the Toronto Conservatory based on the European model. He participated in the establishment of the music faculty at the University of Toronto and in 1918 became its dean.

In the more than 30 years of his teaching activity, Vogt has taught musicians such as GD Atkinson , Jessie M. Allen , Mona Bates , Ernest Farmer , HC Hamilton , William Hewlett , Ada Twohy Kent , Ernest Seitz , Bertha Tamblyn and George Ziegler . He published a two-volume Standard Anthem Book and (with Healey Willan ) The School and Community Song Book (Gage, 1922) and wrote a piano school ( His Modern Pianoforte Technique , 1900). In addition to Prelude and Fugue for Organ , Vogt composed a number of choral works such as An Indian Lullaby (1906) and The Sea (1911) as well as arrangements by The Lord's Prayer (1900) and Crossing the Bar (1906).

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• Augustus Stephen Vogt ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Gaynor G. Jones: Vogt, Augustus Stephen . In: Dictionary of Canadian Biography . tape 15: 1921-1930 . University of Toronto Press, Toronto 2005, ISBN 0-8020-9087-7 ( English , French ).