Short Name: | Homer N. Bartlett |
Full Name: | Bartlett, Homer N. (Homer Newton), 1845-1920 |
Birth Year: | 1845 |
Death Year: | 1920 |
Homer Newton Bartlett, a pianist, organist and prolific composer, was considered during his lifetime to be in the front rank of American musicians. He was born on December 1845 in Olive, New York, the descendant of a long line of illustrious New Englanders. A musical prodigy from childhood, he studied piano and composition with a number of well-known teachers, including Emil Guyon and S.B. Mills, and took up his first position as a church organist at the age of fourteen.
In August 1864, the summer after he turned eighteen, Bartlett enlisted as an infantryman in the 64th New York Regiment. He was mustered out the following year at the end of the war. Bartlett spent his adult life in New York City, where he was organist and musical director at two prestigious Protestant churches. For twelve years he served at the Marble Collegiate Church, the Dutch Reformed church founded by Peter Minuit, which is the oldest Protestant congregation in North America; he then moved to the Madison Avenue Baptist Church, where he remained for the next thirty-one years. At the same time, he was composing and publishing musical works in a variety of genres, from voice-and-piano pieces intended for middle-class drawing rooms to grand symphonic works such as Apollo, a “symphonic poem” based on the Iliad. He was a founding member of the American Guild of Organists, served as president of the National Association of Organists, and won a number of musical competitions, including a 1905 composition contest sponsored by the piano manufacturers Kranich & Bach. He died in April 1920.
Nancy Naber, from the New York State Library/Manuscripts and Special Collections
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/pr/sc23062.pdf
Tunes by Homer N. Bartlett (12) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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AMHERST (Bartlett) | Homer N. Bartlett (Composer) | 4 | 13214 32343 32554 |
BARTLETT (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 3 | 33215 54341 65462 |
BEVAN (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 32154 31724 31123 |
[Glory be to the Father, and to the Son] (Bartlett) | Homer N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 53366 76666 54444 |
[Gracious Father, hear our prayer] | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 55661 23112 34561 |
[Gracious Spirit, dwell with me] (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 3 | 53216 54356 71765 |
HE LEADETH ME (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 32115 43365 17627 |
[Joy fills our inmost hearts today] (Bartlett) | Homer N. Bartlett (Composer) | 3 | 13653 12351 75651 |
PROMISED LAND (Bartlett) | Homer N. Bartlett (Composer) | 4 | 36532 43216 71651 |
RUTGERS (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 32143 24325 54534 |
UNION (Bartlett) | Homer N. Bartlett (Composer) | 2 | 31233 43235 43234 |
WILLIAMS (Bartlett) | H. N. Bartlett (Composer) | 3 | 51763 54332 35657 |