James Hotchkiss Rogers

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James Hotchkiss Rogers ( February 7, 1857 - November 28, 1940 ) was an American organist and composer.

After training in the USA, Rogers studied piano with Carl Albert Loeschhorn and Heinrich Ehrlich and organ with Carl August Haupt from 1875 . He continued his training in Paris with Henri Fissot (piano), Alexandre Guilmant (organ) and Charles-Marie Widor (composition). After returning to the United States in 1881, he became organist at Scovill Avenue Temple and First Unity Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He was still active as a concert organist and music teacher and published more than one hundred works, including several cantatas, songs, piano and organ music.

Organ works

  • Four Pieces for Organ , 1905
  • Suite for organ , 1905
  • Five Organ Pieces , 1907
  • Three Organ Pieces , 1907
  • Four Organ Pieces , 1908
  • Processional March , 1910
  • Reverie , 1910
  • Sonata no.1 in e minor , 1910
  • Berceuse , 1911
  • Second Toccata in c minor , 1911
  • Sortie in F major , 1911
  • Concert Overture in b minor , 1913
  • Second Suite , 1915
  • International Fantasy , 1917
  • Preludes and Intermezzos 1, 1918
  • Sonata no.2 in d minor , 1921
  • Prelude and Fughetta , 1922
  • Sonata no.3 in B-flat , 1923
  • Sonatina for organ , 1928
  • Sonatina no.2 in f-minor , 1929
  • Grand Choeur in c minor for organ
  • Grand Choeur in e minor for organ
  • madrigal
  • Miniature Suite

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literature

  • Mary Lou Mehrling: "James Hotchkiss Rogers: Cleveland organist, composer, and critic, 1857-1940", Wayne State University, 1963
personal data
SURNAME Rogers, James Hotchkiss
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1857
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1940