GENTLENESS (Ives)

Composer: Charles Taylor Ives

A Founder of the American Guild of Organists, Charles Taylor Ives was born in Brooklyn, NY, in 1864, and served at various times as organist of Emmanuel Baptist Church (Brooklyn), First Congregational Church (Montclair, NJ), the Baptist Temple (Brooklyn), and Classon Avenue Presbyterian Church (also in Brooklyn). He co-edited two hymnals with R. Huntington Woodman. He served as national treasurer of the AGO, 1901-09, and died in Montclair, NJ on July 1, 1948. (source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p. 99) As far as has been found, he was not, or at least not closely, related to his more famous near-contemporary, Charles Edward Ives, 1874-1954. Go to person page >