MOORE, HAMILTON ARCHIBALD

MOORE, HAMILTON ARCHIBALD. Military trumpeter (20 March 1834 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 19? in Philadelphia). As a youth he studied music with Joseph Anderson , leader of the Frank Johnson Bands after Johnson's death in 1844. In 1859 Moore went to England, where he attended Queen's College at Liverpool and studied harmony with Mathis Kellar. He studied trumpet with John Thompson Norton , trumpeter to George IV. For seven years he played trumpet in the Royal Lancaster Artillery,...