Frederic Archer

Frederic Archer (16 June 1838 – 22 October 1901) was a British composer, conductor and organist, born in Oxford.

He held various musical positions in England and Scotland, including organist at the Panopticon in Leicester Square (succeeding Edmund Chipp), Merton College Oxford and (from 1878) the first organist at the Alexandra Palace in London, where his many public recitals on the original and then on the restored organ (post fire) drew large crowds.

[3] In 1896, he established the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, which he conducted for two years before passing the baton on to Victor Herbert.

[5][6] In 1883 Archer founded a music journal, The Keynote, which for a time he edited,[7] and also published several books and numerous organ compositions.

[12] He, his wife, and daughter rest in apparently unmarked graves at Pittsburgh's Homewood Cemetery.