per year (except for the year that Dickinson was there; concert pianist Olga Samaroff also studied organ with Reimann). He also studied with Otto Singer. While in Berlin he was exposed to the musical luminaries of the day, including Felix Weingartner, Arthur Nikisch, Karl Muck, Richard Strauss, Siegfried Ochs, Busoni, and Josef Hoffman. He was a guest of the American ambassador to Germany Andrew White. After his studies with Reimann completed, in the summer of 1899 he vacationed in Switzerland. On this trip he met Helen Adell Snyder (1875-1957) who was on her way to Heidelberg to study for her doctorate. Within 3 days they were engaged. In the fall of 1899 he moved to Paris to further his studies. He intended to study with Widor, but ended studying with Alexandre Guilmant for two years. The first year he also studied composition with Moszkowski, and the second year with Louis Vierne. Here he wrote his first organ composition, Berceuse, dedicated to his fiancee Snyder. During this time he was organist at the American Cathedral in Paris. Career In 1901 he returned to the United States, throwing himself into professional music in the Chicago area. For the first year he was the choir director at the McVicker's Theater in Chicago. The next year he was director of music at Evanston's First Methodist Church. Six months later he was again appointed organist-choirmaster at St. James Episcopal Church in Chicago. At the same time he was also offered the post of conductor of the Musical Club at Columbia Conservatory in Aurora, Illinois, taught in Dubuque Iowa, and taught at the Cosmopolitan School that he directed in Chicago. It required criss-crossing Illinois nearly daily by train. There were further engagements the English Opera Company, the Sunday Evening Club chorus, and the Temple Kehilath Anshe Mayriv. In 1904 he married Helen Adell Snyder after a five year engagement. They honeymooned in Europe, touring Cadiz, Tangier, and Cordova, and on this trip they began collecting folk songs together. Dickinson started the Musical Art Society of Chicago in 1906, which brought together Chicago's best singers on a volunteer basis to present choral concerts in Chicago. Many of these singers commuted to New York, and spread the word of Dickinson's successes. This led to him accepting an invitation to succeed Archer Gibson as organist and choirmaster at Brick Presbytarian Church in New York, a post which he held