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Frederic Archer (1838-1901) was an American organist, born at Oxford, England. He studied music in London and Leipzig, and held musical positions in England and Scotland until 1880, when he was appointed organist of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. Afterward he became conductor of the Boston (Mass.) Oratorio Society, director of Carnegie Music Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa., and in 1899 organist of the Church of the Ascension, Pittsburgh. He founded, in 1885, the Keynote, which for a time he edited. In 1896 he established The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. He published, besides numerous compositions for the organ, The Organ and The College Organist.
