Harold Gleason

Harold Gleason (born April 26, 1892 in Jefferson , Ohio , † June 28, 1980 in La Jolla , San Diego County , California ) was an American organist, music teacher and musicologist.

Life

Harold Gleason was a student of Edwin Lemare and Lynnwood Farnam . He was the organist and choirmaster at New York's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church before coming to Rochester in 1919 as George Eastmans personal organist and music director . In the same year he founded the David Hochstein Memorial Music School , which opened in 1920, and became its director. For the nascent Eastman School of Music he designed the organs for Kilborn Hall and the Strong Auditorium . In 1920 he went to Paris to study with Joseph Bonnet , whom he won for teaching for several weeks at the Eastman School in 1922 and 1923.

Gleason himself took over the management of the organ department at the Eastman School, he also worked as an organist at various churches in Rochester and performed as a concert organist in the USA, Canada and England. From 1932 to 1955 he directed the school's graduate classes. He wrote an organ school ( Method of Organ Playing ) and the anthologies Outlines of Music Literature and Examples of Music before 1400 and was co-author of the Anthology of Music in America, 1620-1865 .

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SURNAME	Gleason, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American organist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jefferson , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH	June 28, 1980
Place of death	La Jolla , San Diego County, California