George Elbridge 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 a Beethoven Society in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of fifteen. In 1862 he went to Boston, later to New York, where he studied with George Washbourne Morgan. This was followed by studies with William T. Best in Liverpool and with Robert Radecke in Berlin.
From 1874 to 1878 he was organist at the Music Hall in Boston and organ teacher at the New England Conservatory of Music . From 1878 he was organist at the Music Hall in Cincinnati / Ohio and taught at the College of Music there . In 1883 he returned as a teacher at the New England Conservatory.
Whiting composed masses and cantatas, some orchestral pieces, 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)
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| SURNAME | Whiting, George Elbridge |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer and organist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holliston , Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 1923 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |