Harry Rowe Shelley

Harry Rowe Shelley was an American composer, organist, and professor of music. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Shelley studied with Gustave J. Stoeckel at Yale College, Dudley Buck, Max 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 60 years a host of English-speaking peoples throughout the world sang his hymns."

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 City, 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==

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==

Honors

• 1898 – Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters == Contemporary recordings ==

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. == References ==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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