14/11/1816, Heckmondwike, Yorkshire, England – 16/05/1880, Manchester, England
English Congregationalist minister and diffuser of the Tonic sol-fa system of music education created by Sarah Ann Glover. He established the Tonic Sol-Fa Press in Plaistow, where he had been a minister, and in 1879 the Tonic Sol-Fa college (later the Forest Gate School of Music) in Forest Gate. Curwen's system was designed to aid in sight reading of the stave with its lines and spaces.
