The British Musical Biography

[E] Towers, John, organist and writer on
music, born at Salford, Lancashire, February
18, 1836. Chorister in Manchester Cathedral
and afterwards studied at R.A.M., 1856, and
with Adolph Marx, Berlin, 1857. Organist of
Wilmslow Parish Church, 1863 ; St. Stephen's
Gonell, Manchester, and conductor of glee
societies at Rochdale and neighbourhood for
some years. Went to America, and in 1890
was appointed director of the vocal dejDart-
ment in the School of Music, Indianapolis ;
and in 1892, to Utica Conservatorium. Au-
thor of " Beethoven, a Centenary Memoir ;"
" The Mortality of Musicians ;" a lecture ;
" Some Lancashire-born Musical Worthies"
(1888), etc.

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