His published works, among many others, include "First Forty Lessons" and "Musical Theory Books I and II", and during his lifetime he composed over 160 choruses and songs, including "Innocence" and "In the silence of night".
[1] Known spouses include Mary Storrs Andersen (1880–1946) and Helen Somerville (1892–1968), a fellow composer and pianist.
He rests at the Evergreen Memorial Park, Tucson, Arizona.
Andersen graduated from Newport High School in 1896 and went on to study in Boston with Charles Martin Loeffler, in Paris with George Guiraud and Vincent d'Indy, Hermann Durra in Berlin and Giovanni Sgambati in Rome.
The full works of Arthur Olaf Andersen are held at the American Music Research Center.