MARGETSON, EDWARD H.

MARGETSON, EDWARD H. Composer (31 December 1891 in St. Kitts, British Virgin Islands; 22 January 1962 in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his father was a choirmaster and church organist, and his mother was a pianist. At the age of fifteen he began his professional career as a church organist. In 1919 he settled in New York. He obtained his musical education at Columbia University (1921-23, 1924-26), where he studied with Daniel Gregory Mason and Seth...