Dear Michael and Richard,
There was at least one other Biltmore organist even if there was no 
organ!
Maurice Frederic (k/a Fred) Longhurst studied in Leipzig, at the GSM and 
TCL in London, achieved an FRCO and served as organist of the parish 
church in Interleithen, Scotland, before he moved to the USA in 1912 as 
private organist to the Vanderbilts at their chateau in Biltmore, North 
Carolina. He was well-known for his ‘storm’ improvisations. Organist and 
professor at Dartmouth College from 1921 and then of St. Paul's 
Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he was conductor of 
the Handel Society in Dartmouth in the 1930s.
Kind regards,
John

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