American musician and author, born at Franklin, CT, on the 4th of February 1843; educated at Oberlin College and at the Leipsic Conservatory of Music. He became director of the Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in 1867; was professor of music at Ripon College from 1867 to 1877; and at the School of Music for Young Ladies at Milwaukee in 1878–84. In 1884 he organized the School of Music in the latter city. He wrote a History of Pianoforte Music, with biographical sketches of its greatest masters (1883), and an English edition of the same, with a preface by Ridley Prentice, was most favorably noticed by critics, and appeared at London in 1885; New Lessons on Harmony, based on the work of Dr. Hugo Riemann (1887); and Lessons in Musical History (1888).
