Composers

Harvey Bartlett Gaul

Organ
Mixed chorus
Voice
Piano
Men's chorus
String ensemble
Soprano
Tenor
Female chorus
Religious music
Piece
Carol
Song
Sacred hymns
Hymn
Prelude
Anthem
Sacred songs
Choruses
by popularity

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4 Noëls of Normandy4 Old Normandy Noëls5 Traditional French Christmas Carols

A

A Prelude for PentecostA Song for the Golden HarvestAll Saints' Day of the Pennsylvania CroatiansAprilAscension FiestaAt the Foot of FujiyamaAt the HaciendaAve Maris Stella of Nova Scotia Fishing Fleet

C

Cantique d'AmourCarol of the Russian ChildrenChant for Dead HeroesChant TriomphalChildren's Easter FestivalChristmas Dance of the Little Animals

D

Daguerrotype of an Old Mother

E

Easter Morning on Mt. RubidouxEaster Procession of the Moravian BrethrenEaster with the Pennsylvania Moravians

F

Fantasy on Easter KyriesFestival March in F majorFrom the SouthlandFughetta

G

Gloria in excelsis Deo

H

Hymn of the American Navy

L

La brumeLa Sortie des Trois RoisLenten MeditationLittle Bells of Our Lady and Vesper Processional

M

Moravian Evening HymnMoravian Morning Star

O

O Lord God of Hosts

P

Pine Creek Church HousePostludium CirculairePrayer for an American Sailor

T

Teach Us, Good LordTennessee Twilight TuneThe Homeland!The Three LiliesThe Wind and the GrassTo Martin Luther's Christmas Carol

W

Water Lilies

Y

Yasnaya Polyana
Wikipedia
Harvey Bartlett Gaul (b. 12 Apr 1881, Brooklyn; d. 1 December 1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American composer, organist, choirmaster, lecturer, music critic, and writer from Pittsburgh. He is memorialized by an annual award — the Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Contest (aka The Harvey Gaul Prize) — bestowed to composers for outstanding work.
He was an organist for 35 years (1910–1945) at Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh. He is well known as a composer of church music.
Harvey Gaul Award of the State Federation of Music Clubs (established while he was alive)
1946: Friends of Harvey Gaul, Inc., contest administrator and sponsor
1960: Friends of Harvey Gaul, Inc., and the Carnegie Institute of Technology Department of Music, contest co-administrators and cosponsors
1980: The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, contest administrator and sponsor
Harvey Bartlett Gaul married Harriette Lester Avery (b. 1886, Youngstown, Ohio) June 13, 1908, in Cleveland, Ohio. They had a two children: a son and a daughter.
The son, James Harvey Gaul, had been an archeologist (Harvard class of 1932, PhD Harvard 1940). During World War II, as a U.S. Naval Reservist Lieutenant, he died by German firing squad in late January 1945 at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz, Austria. Having worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence, in 1944, he had been transferred to the Office of Strategic Services. He had been captured by the Germans during a combat mission in Czecho-Slovakia, a country where he had worked as an archeologist. The President of the United States presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously).
The daughter, Ione Gaul Walker (1914–1987), a painter, had been married to Hudson Dean Walker (1907–1976), an art dealer.
Harvey Gaul died December 1, 1945, of injuries from an auto accident.