Harvey Bartlett Gaul
Harvey Bartlett Gaul was an American composer, organist, choirmaster, lecturer, music critic, and writer from Pittsburgh. He is memorialized by an annual award — the Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Contest — bestowed to composers for outstanding work.
He was an organist for 35 years at Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh. He is well known as a composer of church music. His students included composer Gladys Rich.
Harvey Gaul Prize winners
Harvey Gaul Award of the State Federation of Music Clubs- 1942 — Catherine Latta
- 1947 — Joseph W. Grant, Albuquerque, Scherzo for organ
- 1947 — Robert Elmore, Wayne, Pennsylvania, The Lord Will Come, for mixed voice anthem
- 1947 — Francis McCollin, Philadelphia, O Little Town of Bethlehem, for small choir anthem
- 1951 — Sgt. Paul Nelson, staff arranger, U.S. Military Academy, Cantata, for soprano solo with chorus, violin, cello, harp
- 1954 — Clifford Taylor
- 1961 — Richard C. Moffatt
- 1962 — Merrill Ellis
- 1969 — Marles Nole Smith, Two Movements for Violin and Organ
- 19?? — Fisher Tull
- 1972 — Jan Bach, Three Sonnette on Woman, for tenor voice and harpsichord
- 1972 — Wesley Ward, University of Pittsburgh
- 1975 — Robert E. Jager
- 1975 — , Violin and Piano Sonata
- 1983 — Robert D. Morris
- 1989 — C. Bryan Rulon
- 1991 — David Cleary
- 1997 — Derek Bermel
- 1999 — Brett Dietz
- 2001 — Matthew Fields
- 2001 — Pierre D. Jalbert
- 2003 — Daniel Kellogg
- 2005 — David T. Little
- 2007 — Stacy Garrop
- 2007 — Robert Paterson
- 2007 — Wang Jie
- 2009 — Ned McGowan
- 2009 — D. J. Sparr
- 2009 — Clint Needham
- 2011 — Ted Hearne
- 2011 — Dan Visconti
- 2011 — Sean Friar
- 2013 — Dan Visconti
- 2013 — Amy Beth Kirsten
- 2013 — Kyle Duffee
- 2013 — Viet Cuong
Notable students
- Garth Edmundson
- Mary Wiggins
Family
The son, James Harvey Gaul, had been an archeologist. During World War II, as a U.S. Naval Reservist Lieutenant, he died by German firing squad in late January 1945 at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz, Austria. Having worked with the Office of Naval Intelligence, in 1944, he had been transferred to the Office of Strategic Services. He had been captured by the Germans during a combat mission in Czecho-Slovakia, a country where he had worked as an archeologist. The President of the United States presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross.
The daughter, Ione Gaul Walker, a painter, had been married to Hudson Dean Walker, an art dealer.
Death
Harvey Gaul died December 1, 1945, of injuries from an auto accident.General references
- The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, four volumes, edited by H. Wiley Hitchcock and Stanley Sadie, Macmillan Press, London
- Obituaries on File, two volumes, compiled by Felice Levy, Facts on File, New York
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, ninth edition, edited by Laura Kuhn, Schirmer Books, New York
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Classical Musicians, by Nicolas Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York
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