Samuel Prowse Warren

Samuel Prowse Warren (born February 18, 1841 in Montreal , † October 7, 1915 in New York City ) was a Canadian organist , composer and music teacher .

The son of the organ builder Samuel Russell Warren and brother of the organ builder Charles Sumner Warren received his first organ lessons at the age of eleven and worked as an organist at the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal. In 1861 he went to Berlin , where he was a student of Carl August Haupt , Gustav Schumann and Wilhelm Wieprecht .

On his return in 1864 he went to New York, where he was organist at All Souls Unitarian Church and from 1868 to 1894 - with a two-year break - organist at Grace Church ( Episcopal ). There he organized weekly organ concerts in which the entire spectrum of organ literature known at the time was presented, and gave 230 concerts himself.

From 1895 he was organist at the First Presbyterian Church in East Orange . In 1896 he was one of the founding members of the American Guild of Organists , of which he became honorary president in 1902. He also worked as a conductor of the New York Vocal Union and teacher at the Boston Conservatory . One of the earliest female organists in North America, Augusta Lowell , was one of his students .

Warren composed hymns , songs , piano and organ works and wrote organ arrangements of works by Beethoven , Schumann , Wagner and Weber . He published a church hymn book ( In Excelsis ) and prepared an edition of Mendelssohn's organ works for G. Schirmer , which appeared in 1924.

Web links

• Samuel Prowse Warren ( English, French ) In: Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . published by The Canadian Encyclopedia .