Gilbert Raynolds Combs

Gilbert Raynolds Combs (January 5, 1863 – 1934) was an American pianist, organist, and player of stringed instruments; a composer of music for orchestra, piano, voice, and violin; a teacher; and an orchestral and chorus conductor.[1] Gilbert Combs was founder of the Combs Broad Street Conservatory of Music in Philadelphia in 1885, one of the founders and president of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia national music fraternity, founder and vice president of the National Association of Schools of Music,[2] and a Mason.[3]

  1. ^ William Lines Hubbard, ed., The American History and Encyclopedia of Music (Irving Squire: London, 1908), 150.
  2. ^ John F. Ohles and Shirley M. Ohles. Private colleges and universities: Vo. 1 (Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. 1982), 294.
  3. ^ William R. Denslow 10,000 Famous Freemasons (Macoy Publishing & Masonic Supply Co., Inc.: Richmond, Virginia, 1957).