Augustus Stephen Vogt

Augustus Stephen Vogt (August 14, 1861 – September 17, 1926) was a German Canadian organist, choral conductor, music educator, composer, and author.

[1] His mother was a Swiss Lutheran woman named Marianna Zingg, who immigrated to Canada with her parents in the 1830s.

Vogt was appointed organist at the local church and later studied in Hamilton.

In 1888, he returned to Canada and was organist-choirmaster of the Jarvis Street Baptist Church in Toronto, where he would stay until 1906.

[1] He began suffering from heart problems in 1918, but continued with his career, which he found demanding.