Joseph Humfrey Anger (3 June 186211 June 1913) was a
Canadian organist,
pianist,
conductor,
composer, and
music educator of English birth. His compositional output consists mainly of church music and works for solo piano and organ. Some of his more well known works are
A Concert Overture for organ (1895), the patriotic song
Hail Canada (1911), and
Tintamarre, Morceau de Salon (1911), all of which were published by Whaley, Royce & Co. The latter piece was notably the first published classical composition to thoroughly integrate true
tone clusters. He also wrote the textbooks
Form in Music and
A Treatise on Harmony, both of which were widely used in music schools in North America.