About Ernest Trow Carter
Lived 1866 – 1953 (aged 86). Ernest Trow Carter was an American composer.
Ernest Trow Carter (September 3, 1866 – June 22, 1953) was an organist and composer who won the Bispham Award.
Biography He was born on September 3, 1866, in Orange, New Jersey to Aaron Carter and Sarah Swift Trow. At age seven, in 1873 he started what would become eight years of study of piano with Mary Bradshaw as his teacher. At age thirteen, in 1879, he organized an amateur orchestra, studied the cornet, was assistant conductor of the school orchestra; and at sixteen he was playing cornet in a professional orchestra.
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Who was Ernest Trow Carter?
American composer (1866-1953)
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Ernest Trow Carter was born on 3 September 1866 in Orange.
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Ernest Trow Carter died on 22 June 1953 in Stamford.
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Ernest Trow Carter was a composer.
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Ernest Trow Carter was American.
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