There are a couple of possibilities for who you might be looking for when it comes to "George T. Ferris." Here are the two most likely:
Author: There is an author named George T. Ferris who wrote about classical music composers. He published works titled The Great German Composers and The Great Italian and French Composers.
Engineer: The most famous George T. Ferris is likely George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. (often just referred to as George Ferris). He was an American engineer who designed the Ferris wheel, a revolutionary invention that debuted at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
