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Clarence Mader, organist, teacher, composer, was born in 1904 in Easton Pennsylvania, and he died in 1971 in Laguna Hills, California. A pupil of Lynnwood Farnam, he held two prominent positions in Los Angeles, California as organist at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, and head of the organ department at Occidental College. Former students include David and Marian Reiff
Craighead, Thomas Murray, Orpha Ochse, Ladd Thomas, and many others.

His service to the American Guild of Organists included: California State Chairman for six years, Dean of the Los Angeles Chapter, Program Chairman for the 1962 National Convention, National Councillor, and frequent performer at national conventions, festivals, and church music
workshops. Active in the choral field, he was a founder and first president of the Choral
Conductors Guild of California, now known as the National Association of Church Musicians.

The compositions of Clarence Mader reflect a masterly grasp of diverse musical styles and the indispensable gift of inspiration. Vision of St. Stephen, a sacred opera first performed in 1953, and Concerto for Organ, premiered in 1968, illustrate the broad range of his compositions. The Fifth Mystery, a choral work employing serial techniques, stands as a reminder of his abilities both as poet and as composer. Considered by family, friends and colleagues to have been a true renaissance man, he painted over forty pieces of art and composed more than seventy pieces of
poetry.

This short piece, from Vol 3 of The "California Organist", is played on the sample set of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church Skinner,.