Done is the work of the day and the year

Author: A. J. Showalter

Anthony Johnson Showalter, 1858-1924 Born: May 1, 1858, Cher­ry Grove, Vir­gin­ia. Died: No­vem­ber 16, 1924, Chat­ta­noo­ga, Tenn­es­see. Buried: West Hill Cem­e­tery, Dal­ton, Geor­gia. Showalter was a mu­sic teach­er, au­thor and pub­lish­er. He stu­died with Ben­ja­min C. Un­seld and George F. Root; for a year in 1895, he stu­died mu­sic for in Eng­land, France, and Ger­ma­ny. He pub­lished over 130 mu­sic books, which sold more than a mil­lion co­pies. He was prin­ci­pal of the South­ern Nor­mal Mu­sic­al Ins­ti­tute in Dal­ton, Geor­gia, from its in­cept­ion in 1880. He ed­it­ed The Mus­ic­al Teach­er for over 20 years, and served as an el­der of the First Pres­by­ter­ian Ch… Go to person page >