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Paine (JOHN KNOWLES an American)

JOHN KNOWLES, an American organist and composer; born in Portland, Me., Jan. 9, 1839; was Professor of Music from 1874 at Harvard College. His compositions are chiefly piano pieces, with a mass in D, an oratorio, "St. Peter," the "Edipus Tyrannus" (incidental music for Sophocles' tragedy), the opera "Azara," Columbus march and hymn for the World's Columbian Exposition (1892), etc. He died April 25, 1906.