Harvey Bartlett Gaul

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Harvey Bartlett Gaul (born April 11, 1881 in New York City , † December 1, 1945 in Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania ) was an American composer and organist.

Gaul began his musical education with George LeJeune and Dudley Buck and continued it in Great Britain with Alfred R. Gaul and Philip Ames and in France with Alexandre Guilmant , Charles-Marie Widor and Vincent d'Indy .

From 1899 to 1901 Gaul was second organist at St. John's Chapel in New York, from 1901 to 1909 organist and choirmaster at Emmanuel Church in Cleveland. During this time he also worked as a music critic for the Cleveland News .

In 1910 he received the post of organist and choir director at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, which he held until his death. He also worked here as a writer and music critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and conductor of the Pittsburgh Civic String Orchestra and the Savoyard Opera Company . He has also taught music at the University of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Institute of Technology .

In 1920 he became music director of the newly founded radio station KADA , and in the following year he worked for The Musical Forecast magazine . During his time in Pittsburgh, he collected anecdotes and reports about the city-raised songwriter Stephen Foster , which Fletcher Hodges published after his death in the Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine under the title The Minstrel of the Alleghenies .

Gaul was a prolific composer. Of his more than 500 works, in addition to some church music works (especially Chanson du Matin and Chanson du Soir , 1906; Lenten Meditation , 1909; Christmas Pipes of County Clare , 1926; Ancient Hebrew Prayer of Thanksgiving , 1935; Moravian Morning Star , 1941; Easter Procession of the Moravian Brethren , 1945), especially his cantata I Hear America Singing, based on texts by Walt Whitman , which he published in various choral ensembles, is known. The Harvey Gaul Composition Competition was initiated in his memory, sponsored by the Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1960 and the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble in 1980 .

Works

  • Two Chansons for Organ, 1906
  • Festival March in F major for organ, 1906
  • Chant Triomphale for organ, 1907
  • Eventide in D-flat major for organ, 1908
  • Legend in B major for organ, 1908
  • Prelude for organ, 1908
  • Fughetta for organ, 1909
  • Lenten meditation for organ, 1909
  • Sketch in D-flat major (Melodie Mignonne) for organ, 1909
  • Sketch in f minor (Chanson Triste) for organ, 1909
  • Noël Normandie for organ, 1912
  • Yasnaya Polyana for organ, 1914
  • April for organ, 1916
  • La Bume (The Mist) for organ, 1916
  • From the Southland for organ, 1916
  • Wind and the Grass for organ, 1918
  • Chant for the Dead Heroes for organ, 1919
  • Postludium Circulaire for Organ, 1921
  • Daguerrotype of an Old Mother for organ, 1923
  • Little Bells of Our Lady and Vesper Processional for organ, 1924
  • I hear America singing , cantata, 1925
  • At the Foot of the Fujiyama for organ, 1926
  • Christmas Pipes of County Clare for Organ, 1926
  • Easter Morning on Mt. Rubidoux for Organ, 1926
  • Easter with the Pennsylvanian Moravians for organ, 1928
  • Ave Maris Stella for organ, 1930
  • All Saint with the Pennsylvania Croatians for organ, 1931
  • Ancient Hebrew prayer of Thanksgiving for organ, 1935
  • Ascension Fiesta for organ, 1936
  • Dithryramb for organ, 1937
  • Children's Easter Festival for Organ, 1939
  • Song of Early Patriots for organ, 1939
  • Christmas Dance of the Little Animals for organ, 1940
  • Fantasy on Easter Kyries for organ, 1941
  • Moravian Morning Star for Organ, 1941
  • A Negro once sang on Good Friday for organ, 1941
  • Song for the Golden Harvest for organ, 1941
  • March of the Wise Men , 1942
  • Easter Procession of the Moravian Brethren for organ, 1945
  • Hymn of the American Navy for organ, 1945
  • Moravian Evening Hymn , 1946
  • Alice in Wonderland , musical game in three acts
  • And I don't see why they should
  • Carol of Russian children
  • Five Little White Heads
  • Prayer for an American Sailor
  • The Holy City

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personal data
SURNAME Gaul, Harvey Bartlett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and organist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1945
Place of death Pittsburgh