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Harry Rowe Shelley
American composer, organist , and professor of music

Harry Rowe Shelley

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American composer, organist , and professor of music
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Harry Rowe Shelley (June 8, 1858 – September 12, 1947) was an American composer, organist (church and concert), and professor of music.Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and completed his musical education in London and Paris.According to his New York Times obituary, Shelley "penned church music that won him wide popularity.For sixty years a host of English-speaking peoples throughout the world sang his hymns."

Shelley attended Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven, Connecticut and at fourteen played the organ at Center Church on the Green in New Haven. Although he entered Yale, he did not complete his freshman year.Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral. Shelley died at age 89 in Short Beach, Connecticut.

Positions held

  • 1878–1881 — Organist, Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn
  • 1881–1887 — Organist, Plymouth Church (same)
  • 1887–1899 — Organist, Church of the Pilgrims
  • 1899–1914 — Organist, Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, which later became Park Avenue Baptist and eventually Riverside Church
  • 1915–1936 — Organist, Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn
  • Faculty member, American Institute of Applied Music

Selected compositions

Among his works are two symphonies; a symphonic poem: The Crusaders; a suite for orchestra: Souvenir de Baden-Baden; sacred cantatas: Vexilla Regis (1893);The Inheritance Divine (1895); Death and Life (1898); a violin concerto; an opera: Leila (manuscript); anthems: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (1886); Hark!, Hark, My Soul (1887); an arrangement for Harriet Beecher Stowe's poem Still, Still with Thee (1930); and other songs and organ pieces.He also composed the Santa Claus Overture;and Lochinvar's Ride (1915).

Honors

  • 1898 — Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Contemporary Recordings

Shelley, Harry Rowe. "Santa Claus Overture, a lyrical intermezzo." On Those Fabulous Americans. The Symphony Orchestra of America; Matthew B. Phillips, conductor. Albany Records (Troy 103), 1993. Compact disc.

Sources

  • Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Grove II), 6: 1920 American Supplement, 361.
  • New York Times, obituary, September 13, 1947, 11.
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