Charles A.E. Harriss

Charles A.E. Harriss

Charles Albert Edward Harriss (16 or 17 December 1862 - 31 July 1929) was an English then Canadian composer, impresario, educator, organist-choirmaster and conductor.

Earnscliffe Residence in Ottawa, Ontario

In 1897, Charles Albert Edwin Harriss married Ella Beatty-Shoeberger, daughter of John Beatty, Esquire, M.D., Professor of Sciences in Victoria University, Cobourg, Ontario., and his wife, Eleanor Armstrong. Ella was born and educated in Cobourg, Ontario. In 1883 she married her first husband, George K. Shoenberger, Esquire, of "Scarlet Oaks," Cincinnati, one of the "Iron Kings" of Pennsylvania (he died 1892). After Sir John A. Macdonald's death, Mrs. Harriss purchased and occupied "Earnscliffe," a Victoria Manor house which had been his former place of residence at Ottawa, Ontario. She served as President of the Woman's Morning Music Club, and other official positions of that character. [1]

Selected works

  • Daniel before the King a dramatic cantata, 1884
  • Torquil a lyric opera, 1894
  • Festival Mass, 1901
  • Coronation Mass for Edward VII, 1903
  • Pan choric idyll, 1904
  • The Sands of Dee ballad, 1904
  • The Crowning of the King ode, 1911
  • The Admiral comic opera, 1902
  • Canadian Fantasie, 1904

External links

References

  1. ^ Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903) [1]



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