Humfrey Anger

Joseph Humfrey Anger (born June 3, 1862 in Faringdon , † June 11, 1913 in Toronto ) was a Canadian organist, composer, conductor and music teacher.

Anger studied music at Oxford University and Trinity College in Toronto. He worked as a school teacher, church organist and conductor of the Ludlow Choral and Orchestral Society and in 1893 became head of the music theory department of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 1894 to 1896 he was organist and choirmaster at the Church of the Ascension , then at the Old St Andrew's Presbyterian Church and from 1902 at the Central Methodist Church . In addition, he was from 1895 to 1896 President of the Canadian Society of Musicians , from 1896 to 1898 conductor of the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra and head of theAmerican Guild of Organists for Ontario.

Anger mainly composed church music, as well as some piano and organ works, including a concert overture for organ and Tintamarre, Morceau de Salon . With the cantata A Song of Thanksgiving he won the Jubilee Prize of the Bath Philharmonic Society and in 1890 the London Madrigal Society Prize with the Madrigal Bonnie Belle . He also wrote several music theory and pedagogical works, including Church Music (1893), Form in Music (1898, 1900), Elements of Harmony (1902), A Treatise on Harmony , (three volumes, 1905, 1906-12, 1919) . The Modern Enharmonic Scale (1907) and A Key to the Exercises in Part I and II of A Treatise on Harmony (two volumes, 1909, 1913).

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• Humfrey Anger ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .
• Biographical Dictionary of the Organ - Dr. Humfrey Anger
• Composers Classical Music - Anger, Joseph Humphrey