Benjamin Dwight Allen

Benjamin Dwight Allen (February 16, 1831, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts – March 4, 1914, in Wellesley, Massachusetts) was a composer and organist. His parents were natives of Massachusetts named Alvan and Lucy. He was an organist for Congregational churches and gained attention in the nineteenth century.

From 1845 onwards he was a teacher and an organist. From 1857 to 1894 he worked as an organist and a choir director for the Union Congregational Church. In 1858, he founded the Worcester Music Festival. From 1871 to 1876, he taught at the Boston Conservatory. After 1894 he led the music department at a college in Wisconsin and from 1902 to 1905 he worked as an organist at the Manhattan Congregational Church in New York City.