Charles Henry Galloway (December 21, 1871 – March 9, 1931) was a St. Louis, Missouri church and concert organist, choral conductor, educator, and composer.

As an educator, Galloway taught at various institutions, including the Strassberger Conservatories of Music, Washington University in St. Louis, and Lindenwood College.

William found work in St. Louis as a dry goods salesman, and existing ledgers suggest that his business was fairly successful—as well as the fact that he was able to hire a black worker with his own living quarters to help with chores.

Guilmant, widely regarded as the greatest organist in the world at that time, gave two recitals at the Grand Avenue Presbyterian Church in St. Louis; Galloway happened to be accompanying other performers on the programs.

According to an article published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “[Galloway's] playing was received with enthusiasm, and he was encored three times by an audience numbering between 4000 and 5000.”[9] The young organist even received praise from Guilmant himself; following his return to the United States on December 28, 1898, Guilmant wrote in a letter: “For several years I have given organ and theory lessons to Mr. Charles Galloway, and I have taken the greatest interest in his studies, which have been excellent.

Her father, Herman, was a brewer (though no relation to the Miller Brewing Company) and named his daughter after President James A. Garfield, of whom he was a great admirer.

On Sunday afternoons during the summer months, with the windows open, he would give informal concerts, and dozens of people would gather across the street in Tower Grove Park to listen.

As a performer, Galloway's greatest recognition came from serving as the official organist of the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis when he was just thirty-two years old.

Its console had five manuals, each with sixty-one keys; one hundred forty stops; and more than 10,000 pipes, the lowest of which was thirty-two feet long, and, as World's Fair Secretary David R. Francis notes, large enough for a pony to pass through them.

[13] In his official history of the fair, John Wesley Hanson writes, “It is an instrument capable of producing 17,179,869,183 distinct tonal effects, a continuous performance that would last 32,600 years if a different one of these combinations were drawn every minute.”[14] The organ's debut was scheduled for May 1, the opening day of the fair, but, unsurprisingly, there were several complications, and Galloway did not give his opening recital until June 9.

In addition, daily organ recitals were given by more than eighty of the most respected organists from around the world, including J. Warren Andrews, Horatio Parker, and, most notably, Alexandre Guilmant.

For many years, Galloway gave a series of eight monthly organ recitals in Graham Chapel on the university's campus, which were free to the public.

[17] In addition, over the course of his career, he gave countless recitals across the United States and dedicated dozens of organs, which earned him a national reputation.

Interestingly, Cornelia's parents, George Washington Vanderbilt II and Edith Dresser, were married at the American Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris during Galloway's tenure there in 1898.

Over the following two years, Pommer and Galloway, along with Frederick W. Mueller; William Schuyler; Carl Busch, director of the Kansas City Symphony; and D.R.

A single winner was never declared, however; the committee selected the poem “Missouri” by Lizzie Chambers Hull for the song's text and awarded four different composers honorable mention prizes for their settings of it.

[19] A year earlier, Galloway, along with Ernest R. Kroeger and James T. Quarles, chartered the St. Louis chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

He was hired as the conductor of the Apollo Club of St. Louis—the city's premier men's chorus—in 1902, succeeding the founding director, Alfred G. Robyn.

Galloway's obituary in The Diapason notes the dramatic circumstances of his death: In the late afternoon, Mr. Galloway was conducting a rehearsal in the Washington University field-house, by the combined glee clubs of the university and the chapel choir, assisted by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, of Fletcher's “A Song of Victory,” when in leaving the rostrum he was suddenly stricken with an attack of heart disease to which he succumbed within an hour.

In addition to those in his private studio, Galloway taught at various institutions, including the Strassberger Conservatories of Music and, briefly, Lindenwood College.