Clarke, Hugh Archibald

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Clarke, Hugh Archibald

Clarke, Hugh Archibald, Scottish-American organist, pedagogue, and composer; b. near Toronto, Canada, Aug. 15, 1839; d. Philadelphia, Dec. 16, 1927. He was the son and pupil of the Scottish organist James Paton Clarke (b. 1808; d. Toronto, Aug. 27, 1877). In 1859 he settled in Philadelphia, where he was a church organist. He also served as prof, of music at the Univ. of Pa. (1875–1925). He publ. textbooks, including A System of Harmony (Philadelphia, 1898), and also publ. Music and the Comrade Arts (Boston, 1899) and Highways and Byways of Music (N.Y., 1901). Among his compositions were incidental music to Aristophanes’s Acharnians (1886) and Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris, the cantata The Music of the Spheres (1880), the oratorio Jerusalem (1890), three piano sonatinas (1874), and songs.

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