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Edwin Henry Lemare〔Frequently misspelled "Lamare" in early publications〕 (9 September 1865, Ventnor, Wight〔Nelson Barden (January 1986) "Edwin H. Lemare", ''The American Organist''〕 〔Keller, G., Kruseman, P. (1932) ''Geïllustreerd Muzieklexicon'', p.390〕 - 24 September 1934, Hollywood, California) was an English organist and composer who lived the latter part of his life in the United States. He was the most highly regarded and highly paid organist of his generation,〔 as well as the greatest performer and one of the most important composers of the late Romantic English-American Organ School.〔''The Organ Music of Edwin H. Lemare'', Series 1, Volume 1, Wayne Leupold Editions〕 ==Biography== Edwin H. Lemare was born in Ventnor, on the Isle of Wight on 9 September 1865. His birth year is sometimes erroneously stated as 1866, including in Lemare's own autobiography ''Organs I Have Met''. He received his early musical training as a chorister and organist under his father (a music seller, also called Edwin Lemare) at Holy Trinity Church. He then spent three years at the Royal Academy of Music from 1876 on a Goss Scholarship, where he studied under Sir George Alexander Macfarren, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Dr Charles Steggall and Dr Edmund Hart Turpin. He obtained the F.R.C.O. in 1886. He became an organ professor and examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music in 1892.〔 He gained fame by playing two recitals a day, over a hundred in total, on the one-manual Brindley & Foster organ in the Inventions Exhibition in 1884. He gave bi-weekly recitals at the Park Hall, Cardiff, from 1886; this was followed by further appointments around Great Britain.〔 While organist at Sheffield Parish Church, he eloped with Marian Broomhead Colton-Fox because her father, a well-known lawyer, did not approve of him.〔Jonathan Gradin (2008) ("A Brief Overview of the Life and Legacy of Edwin H. Lemare" )〕 After eight years of marriage, they were divorced and Lemare married Elsie Francis Reith. They were divorced in 1909.〔(EDWIN H. LEMARE by Nelson Barden )〕 Lemare left England for the United States where he married Charlotte Bauersmith, twenty years his junior, shortly after arriving in New York.〔 She was herself an organist and sometimes substituted for him.〔"News and Notes" (Jan 1922) ''The American Organist'' Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 198〕 After apparently treating church services in London as concerts, he left for a hundred-recital tour of the USA and Canada from 1900–1901, and stayed in North America for most of the remainder of his life. He also toured Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, where he helped to design the organs for Auckland Town Hall and Melbourne Town Hall. He died in Hollywood, California. He is interred in the Hall of Righteousness Crypt No. 6691 at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Lemare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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