Howard, George Henry

1843-

American composer, teacher and lecturer; was born at Norton, Massachusetts. His father and sister were his first teachers, and he later studied at the Boston Music School, where his teachers were J. W. Adams, B. F. Baker and J. W. Tufts in singing. After teaching five years in the Boston Music School he went to Leipsic in 1869, and studied there in the Conservatory under Moscheles, Richter and Papperitz. The next year he studied with Haupt and Kullak in Berlin, then returned to Boston where he taught. In 1874 he went to London to teach in the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, but after one year there returned to America and became director of the Olivet (Michigan) Conservatory of Music, a position which he occupied for six years. He also taught and lectured in the New England Conservatory of Music at Boston, and in 1891 he organized the Boston School for Teachers of Music. For twelve years ne was a teacher on the faculty at the Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute. Since 1898 he has given his time to private teaching, composition and concert playing. He has given many lectures and lecture recitals, and has written a Course in Harmony; Outline of Technique; and Modern and Classic Repertory for the Organ. He has composed many pieces for the organ; an Amen Chorus; many excellent anthems, and a number of piano pieces, besides an unpublished piano method, Manual of Analysis. In 1907 he founded a new school of music for instruction in conceptive methods. He was the successful conductor of two orchestras.