Frederick Grant Gleason

He wanted his son to enter the ministry - a good old New England tradition.

Gleason spent much of his early life in the neighboring city of Hartford, as a pupil of Dudley Buck, going in 1869 to Leipzig to study with Ignaz Moscheles and Hans Richter.

[1] After six years in Europe he returned to America, and in 1877 went to Chicago as a member of the faculty of the Hershey School of Music, of which Clarence Eddy (also a pupil of Buck) was the general director.

"[1] Gleason's compositions include: the Festival Ode (words by Harriet Monroe) sung by 500 voices with orchestra at the opening of the Auditorium Theatre, Chicago on 9 December 1889;[4][5] Processional of the Holy Grail written for the Chicago World's Fair; a symphonic poem, Edris, based on a novel by Marie Corelli; the tone poem Song of Life (after a poem by Swinburne); a Piano Concerto; a cantata with orchestra, The Culprit Fay; and two operas: Otho Visconti and Montezuma.

He left other scores in manuscript, with instructions that they were not to be publicly performed until fifty years after his death.