Leo Sowerby

Leo Salkeld Sowerby (1 May 1895 – 7 July 1968) was an American composer and church musician.

He studied composition with Arthur Olaf Andersen at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.

In 1962, after his retirement from St. James, he was called to Washington National Cathedral to become the founding director of the College of Church Musicians, a position he held until his death in 1968.

[3] His later works, composed while he was at St. James, Chicago, and Washington National Cathedral, are primarily church music for choir and organ.

Originally published by H. W. Gray, reprinted by the Leo Sowerby Foundation, Bryn Mawr, Pa., Theodore Presser, sole selling agent, 1996.