Edward Shippen Barnes

BARNES, Edward Shippen. b. Seabright, New Jersey, 14 September 1887; d. Idyllwild, California, 14 February 1958. Distinguished organist, composer and author, Barnes attended Lawrenceville Academy, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (BA 1910) where he studied music theory and composition with Horatio William Parker* and organ with Harry B. Jepson (1870-1952). During the next two years he attended the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he studied organ with Abel Decaux (1869-1943), composition with Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931), and improvisation with Louis Vierne (1870-1937), as well as organ with T. Tertius Noble* at York, England. He served in the US Naval Reserve...