John J. McClellan

John Jasper McClellan Jr. (April 20, 1874 – August 2, 1925)[1] served as the chief organist of the organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1900 to 1925.

In 1899, McClellan went to Berlin, Germany, where he studied with Xaver Scharwenka and Ernest Jedliczka.

In the 1985 English edition of the LDS hymnal, the music for "Sweet Is the Work" (hymn #147) was composed by McClellan.

[5] Among those who studied under McClellan were Alexander Schreiner,[6] Sidney B. Sperry[7] and J. Spencer Cornwall.

Columbia's British branch issued "Melody in F" (Anton Rubinstein, opus 3 no.

1) and "Toccata and Finale" (an abridged version of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 by Johann Sebastian Bach) on Columbia-Rena disc 1704, "Sextette" (from Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti) and "Tannhäuser: Overture" (Richard Wagner) on both sides of Columbia-Rena 2232, and "Gondoliers" (Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, no.