Edward George Power Biggs (March 29, 1906 — March 10, 1977), more familiarly known as E. Power Biggs, was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.
Biggs was born in Westcliff-on-Sea

Westcliff-on-Sea

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, Essex

Essex

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, England

England

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; a year later, the family moved to the Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight

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. Biggs was trained in London

London

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 at the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

, where he studied with G.D. Cunningham. Biggs emigrated to the United States

United States

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 in 1930. In 1932, he took up a post at Christ Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

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, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Biggs did much to bring the classical pipe organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

 back to prominence, and was in the forefront of the mid-20th-century resurgence of interest in the organ music of pre-Romantic

Romanticism

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 composers.