Showalter was a mu­sic teach­er, au­thor and pub­lish­er. He stu­died with Ben­ja­min C. Un­seld and George F. Root; for a year in 1895, he stu­died music for in Eng­land, France, and Ger­ma­ny. He pub­lished over 130 mu­sic books, which sold more than a mil­lion co­pies. He was prin­ci­pal of the South­ern Nor­mal Mu­sic­al Ins­ti­tute in Dal­ton, Geor­gia from its in­cept­ion in 1880. He ed­it­ed The Mus­ic­al Teach­er for over 20 years, and served as an el­der of the First Pres­by­ter­ian Church in Dal­ton, Georg­ia. His works in­clude Har­mo­ny and Com­po­si­tion, 1880.

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Music

1. After the Life-Paths
2. Draw Me Closer, Lord, to Thee
3. Like a Wayward Child I’ve Wandered
4. Showalter
5. Waves of Salva­tion, The