George Ziegler (musician)

George Ziegler (born August 1, 1889 in City of Berlin / Ontario ; † October 22, 1981 in Kitchener ) was a Canadian organist, choir director, conductor, composer and music teacher.

Ziegler came from a family of musicians: his father was a cornet player and trombonist, his brother a drummer. He played in the Ziegler Family Orchestra and at the age of thirteen became the youngest member of the Berlin Musical Society Band . He studied piano and organ at the Toronto Conservatoy of Music with Humfrey Anger , George Douglas Atkinson and Augustus Vogt and during this time he played the flute in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Welsman Symphony Orchestra . He then continued his education in New York and Buffalo.

After his return to Kitchener in 1910 he became organist and choirmaster at St. Peter's Church and St. Andrew's Church and worked in this capacity from 1917 to 1950 at Trinity Church . In 1911 he founded the Ziegler Associated Studios (later Kirchener Conservatory of Music ), where he taught piano, organ, brass instruments and music theory until 1974. He was also a member of the examination boards of various music schools. His students included Harvey Gleiser Jr , J. Ferris Loth , Kenneth Sakos and the trumpeter Erich Traugott .

From 1924 to 1967 Ziegler headed the Kitchener Musical Society , and from 1925 to 1932 a ladies band , which with 94 members was considered the largest of its kind in the world, the Brass Band of the Scots Fusiliers of Canada and various youth orchestras. He composed works for wind orchestra and for organ and for choir, but most of the manuscripts fell victim to a fire in 1959.

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• George Ziegler ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Kitchener Musical Society Band - History - George H. Ziegler