Virgil fox wiki

Virgil Fox was born in Princeton, Illinois, on May 3, 1912. He was a child prodigy.

Virgil fox wiki

At the age of ten, he was playing the organ for church services. At fourteen, he played his first organ recital before a cheering crowd of 2,500 people in Cincinnati. At seventeen, he was the unanimous winner of the Biennial Contest of the National Federation of Music Clubs in Boston, the first organist ever chosen.

Before graduating in 1930 as salutatorian of his high school class, he studied for three years with Wilhelm Middelschulte, Organist of the (now) Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1931, he became a scholarship student at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, America’s oldest music conservatory.

In his twentieth year, he played five recitals from memory, completed eighteen examinations with the highest grades in his class, and became the first one-year student in the history of the Peabody to graduate with the its highest ho