Augusta Amherst Austen
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Augusta Amherst Austen (2 August 1827 – 5 August 1877) was a British organist and composer, chiefly of hymn tunes.
Austen was born in London, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She was a church organist for most of her active career, from 1844 to 1848 at Ealing Church, and from 1848 to 1857 at Paddington Chapel. She composed various hymn tunes, of which one, "St. Agnes", was published in Charles Steggall's Church Psalmody (1849).
She married Thomas Anstey Guthrie shortly after leaving Paddington Chapel. One of her sons, also named Thomas Anstey Guthrie, became a well-known novelist. She died in Glasgow.
References
- James D. Brown & Stephen S. Stratton (1897). "Austen, Augusta Amherst". British Musical Biography. Chadfield & Son. p. 18.
- James Love (1891). "Austen, Augusta Amherst". Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources. W. Blackwood & Sons. p. 67.
- Markus Gärtner, Art. "Austen, Augusta Amherst", in: Lexikon "Europäische Instrumentalistinnen des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts", hrsg. von Freia Hoffmann, 2009. https://www.sophie-drinker-institut.de/austen-augusta-amherst
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