James Hotchkiss Rogers

James Hotchkiss Rogers (February 7, 1857 – November 28, 1940) was an American organist, composer, teacher, music critic, and publisher.

Biography James was born in Fair Haven, Connecticut, the son of Martin L. and Harriett Hotchkiss Rogers in Fair Haven, Connecticut, descended from a family of "old New England stock". He began studying piano by the age of twelve and organ with Clarence Eddy in Chicago. At the age of eighteen he went to Berlin, Germany, where he studied for two years with Carl August Haupt and Rohde, followed by two years in Paris, France, where he studied with Alexandre Guilmant, Henri Fissot, and Charles-Marie Widor. He worked for a year in Burlington, Iowa before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, where he established himself primarily as an organist.

In addition to his organist positions at the Euclid Avenue Temple (a position he held for 50 years), he taught at the Cleveland School of Music and served as a critic for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. was presented to the Western Reserve Historical Society a year later.

He also composed lighter secular partsongs, Christmas and Easter cantatas, several Mass settings, and temple service music.

Rogers also published several pedagogical volumes for the piano, and he edited and published several volumes of organ pieces from a variety of sources.

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