Everett Ellsworth Truette

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Everett Ellsworth Truette, an “able American organist” according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924), received a broad education, attending Phillips (Andover) Academy and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before graduating from the New England Conservatory in 1881. He earned his Mus.B. from Boston University in 1883, after which he spent two years studying organ with prominent figures: Haupt in Berlin, Guilmant in Paris, and Best in London and Liverpool. Since 1885, Truette has been a “notable organist” in Boston and its vicinity, serving at the Eliot Church in Newton from 1897, where he “has given more than 110 cantatas with soloists and chorus,” as noted in Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians: American Supplement (1920). A founder of the A. G. O. and dean of its New England Chapter, Truette has given over 400 recitals nationwide and trained many prominent players. He also composed an organ-suite, op. 29, “Five Organ-Pieces for the Church Service,” op. 31, and numerous anthems and organ pieces, besides editing collections like Schmidt’s Standard Organ Collection and Bach Pedal-Etudes. His expertise extended to pedagogy, as he authored Organ Registration in 1919.