Harvey Gaul Easter Morning with the Pennsylvania Moravians for Organ
Harvey Gaul Easter Morning with the Pennsylvania Moravians
7 pages
Published by J. Fischer & Bro.
fairly good condition overall
cloth tape reinforced spine, some minor pencil notations, page edges may be chipped
here's some biographical information about the composer I found on the internet:
Harvey
Bartlett Gaul was born in New York City on April 11, 1881. Best known
as an organist and composer, he began his musical studies with George
LeJeune and Dudley Buck. He completed his musical training in Great
Britain with Alfred R. Gaul and Philip Ames, and in France with
Alexandre Guilmant, Charles-Marie Widor, and Vincent d'Indy.
During his studies both at home and abroad, Gaul honed his
professional skills as organist and choral director through various
church postings. From 1899 to 1901, he was assistant organist at St.
John's Chapel in New York, and from 1901 to 1909, he was organist and
choirmaster at the Emmanuel Church in Cleveland. While living in
Cleveland, Gaul served as music critic for the Cleveland News.
In 1910 he accepted the post of organist and choirmaster at Calvary
Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, where he served until his death in 1945.
He worked as music critic and arts editor for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
conductor of the Pittsburgh Civic String Orchestra and Savoyard Opera
Company, and music instructor at the University of Pittsburgh and the
Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1920 the newly founded radio
station KADA appointed Gaul as its first Music Director. One year later,
he also gained the post of Feature Editor at The Musical Forecast. The periodical focused primarily on Pittsburgh's musical life, its leadership, and organizations.
After settling in Pittsburgh, Gaul became interested in the life and
works of Pittsburgh native Stephen Foster. He collected anecdotes about
Foster from descendants and friends living in Pittsburgh. After Gaul's
death in 1945, Fletcher Hodges edited the Foster manuscript and
serialized it in the Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine (1951) as "The Minstrel of the Alleghenies."
A prolific composer, Gaul wrote more than five hundred works. He is
most remembered for his organ and church music. His organ works include
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), and Easter Procession of the Moravian Brethren (1945).
Gaul's choral compositions include both church anthems and secular cantatas. One of his most enduring works for choir is I Hear America Singing
(1925), a setting of Walt Whitman poetry published in separate versions
for mixed chorus, women's chorus, and men's chorus with soprano
soloist. Today Gaul is memorialized through the Harvey Gaul Composition
Competition, a biennial contest created by the Friends of Harvey Gaul
and currently sponsored by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble.
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