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Clarence Eddy was born on June 23, 1851 in Greenfield, Massachussets, United States. He was the first child of George Sanger and Silence (Cheney) Eddy. His father ran a dry goods store.
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The firm of M. Welte & Sohnes NYC branch on 5th Ave. lasted from 1865 until 1917, under the name M. Welte & Sons. Established by the founders son, Emil Welte (18411923) lived in the USA permanently, only rarely visiting Freiburg. A recording studio with a grand piano for making piano recordings and a recording organ as well occupied this fine 5th Ave. address. Piano recordings of the Welte firm were thus not only made in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1905 until 1932, but also in New York. Featuring organists Clarence Eddy, Samuel Atkinson Baldwin, Lynnwood Farnam, Richard Epstein and Edwin H. Lemare.
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Clarence Eddy was born on June 23, 1851 in Greenfield, Massachussets, United States. He was the first child of George Sanger and Silence (Cheney) Eddy. His father ran a dry goods store.
Clarence began his musical education with piano lessons at the age of eleven, and after studying the organ with a local teacher, J. Gilbert Wilson, he was appointed to a church position in his native town at the age of thirteen. Three years later he became a pupil of Dudley Buck, then organist of the North Congregational Church in Hartford, Connecticut, and at the threshold of a famous career as an organist and composer.
Beginning in 1871 he spent two years and a half in Berlin, where he studied organ with August Haupt and piano with Albert Loeschhorn.
At the age of eighteen Eddy was organist at Bethany Congregational Church, Montpelier, Vermont.
A recital tour on the continent of Europe followed, after which Eddy returned to the United States and settled in Chicago. From 1874 to 1876 he was organist at the First Congregational Church, then in the fashionable part of Chicago's west side, at the largest salary paid to any church organist in that city. He also taught the organ at the Hershey School of Musical Art, which was established in Chicago in 1875 by Mrs. Sara B. Hershey. Eddy soon became its director.
Meanwhile he had been appointed organist and choirmaster at the First Presbyterian Church. The music presented there until his resignation in 1896 was one of Chicago's great Sunday attractions. When the Chicago Auditorium was built, Eddy was selected to design an appropriate organ, and when it was dedicated, in 1891, he played the Fantaisie Triomphale which Theodore Dubois had composed for the occasion. For years this organ was one of the largest in the world, and Eddy and other famous performers often gave recitals on it.
In 1896, Mrs. Eddy having closed her school, Eddy resigned his post at the First Presbyterian Church and moved with his wife to Paris, where he made his home, between recital engagements, for most of the next ten years.
From 1907 to 1910 Eddy was organist of the Tompkins Avenue Congregational Church in Brooklyn, and in 1911-13 he and his second wife made a joint concert tour. After living for a time in Chicago and then in California, where Eddy was organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Oakland, 1916-17, they returned to Chicago, where Eddy spent the rest of his life.
In 1920 he became head of the organ department of the Chicago Musical College. Eddy's professional career covered more than half a century in the United States and in Paris.
A founder of the American Guild of Organists, he served as president of the National Association of Organists, 1911-12. He died at his home in Chicago at the age of eighty-five of heart and kidney complications. After cremation his ashes were deposited in the family plot at Greenfield.
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He was an honorary member of the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome.
Wherever he went his distinguished appearance, as well as his virtuosity, attracted attention, and he was a cosmopolite in every sense of the word.
In July 1879 he married Mrs. Sara B. Hershey.
In 1906, following his return to the United States, he and Mrs. Eddy were divorced, and on July 10 of that year, in New York City, he married Mrs. Grace Morei (Patterson) Dickman, a prominent contralto. He was survived by a foster daughter, Ingeborg Christensen.