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Harry Rowe Shelley (1858–1947), organist and composer who taught harmony and counterpoint

Harry Rowe

Harry Rowe Shelley (1858–1947), American composer, organist and professor of music

Harry Rowe Shelley

He was born in New Haven, Conn. Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max (Wilhelm Carl) Vogrich, and Antonín Dvořák in New York, and subsequently completed his musical education in London and Paris.

Shelley was organist at the Church of the Pilgrims during the ministry of Henry Ward Beecher and played at his funeral.



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