Edwin Arthur Kraft

Edwin Arthur Kraft (January 8, 1883 - July 15, 1962) was an American organist and choir-director.

[1] He studied music at Yale University under Horatio Parker and Harry Jepson before becoming became the organist at St. Thomas's Church in Brooklyn, N.Y.

He then went to Europe for three years, studying organ with Grunicke and Edgar Stillman Kelley in Berlin and Alexandre Guilmant and Charles-Marie Widor in Paris.

[2][1] In 1914 he moved to Atlanta to work as municipal organist but he returned to Trinity Cathedral the following year.

[4] He married Nancy Lovis in December 1909 and had three children, Nanette, Margaret, and Edwin Arthur, Jr.

Kraft at the console of the Skinner organ at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland.