Benjamin Carl Unseld

Benjamin Carl Unseld , better known as B. C. Unseld, was a U.S. gospel music teacher, composer, and publisher.

Unseld was born October 18, 1843 in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. In the early 1860s, he moved to Pennsylvania. Though mostly selftaught, he sang in the choir and accepted a position as organist at the Methodist Church in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He studied music under Eben Tourje and Theodore F. Seward. B. C. Unseld taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, and was the schools first secretary. Later he taught at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and was the first principal of the Virginia Normal School of Music. Unseld and Seward, with Biglow and Main publishers, imported John Curwens Tonic Solfa and promoted it. The method was never widely received in the United States.

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