Mark Andrews (organist)

Mark Andrews, FAGO, ARCO (31 March 1875 − 10 December 1939), was a British organist, composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in the United States of America.

[1][2] Born in Erith, Kent, Andrews studied the organ in England, having turned down a scholarship to the University of Cambridge following his father's death,[2] before moving to Montclair, New Jersey, in 1902.

[1] As a teacher, his pupils included Carl Weinrich, Clarence Watters, Julius Zingg, Edwin Stanley Seder and Winifred Young Cornish.

[2][3] Andrews composed over 300 works for organ and voice, including sacred and secular music.

[2] He wrote the music for the glee club song John Peel, as well as for hymns such as To Whom Then Shall I Liken God.