Clarence Eddy

Hiram Clarence Eddy was an American organist and composer

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Clarence Eddy was a distinguished American organist, whose early training included studies with J. G. Wilson and Dudley Buck before he traveled to Berlin in 1871 to work under Haupt for organ and Loeschhorn for piano. After a “grand tour” through Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Holland, he settled in Chicago in 1874 as organist of the First Congregational Church, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Eddy later became director of the Hershey School of Musical Art in 1876, marrying its founder, Mrs. S. B. H. He was highly regarded for his “great technical ability, extensive repertory, and poetical interpretation of classical works,” as noted by Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1886). A testament to his virtuosity and ambition was a series of one hundred organ recitals he gave in Chicago in 1879, where “not one program-number was repeated.” Eddy also conducted the Chicago Philharmonic Vocal Society for some years and published several works for organ and church music, alongside translating Haupt’s “Theory of Counterpoint and Fugue” (1876). His influence extended to teaching, with Edgar Stillman Kelley listed as his pupil in Chicago between 1874 and 1876, per A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900).