Charles Crozat Converse was born in Warren, Massachusetts on October 7, 1832.[3] He studied law and music in Leipzig, Germany, returned home in 1857, and was graduated at the Albany Law School in 1861.
Many of his musical compositions appeared under the anagrammatic pen-names "C. O. Nevers", "Karl Reden", "E. C. Revons", and "Lesta Vesé".[4] He published a cantata (1855), New Method for the Guitar (1855), Musical Bouquet (1859), The One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Psalm (1860), Sweet Singer (1863), Church Singer (1863) and Sayings of Sages (1863).[5]
^The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Vol. VIII. James T. White & Company. 1924. pp. 449–450. Retrieved January 27, 2021 – via Google Books.
^Silver wings : a collection of entirely new Sunday school music. Princeton Theological Seminary Library. Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co. [etc.] 1870.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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