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William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "[Über dem blauen Meer]" in Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns) William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

C. T. Albrecht

Composer of "[Ueber dem blauen Meer, weit in der Fern']" in Evangelischer Liederschatz

Julia W. Sampson

Author of "Ueber dem blauen Meer" in Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns) [See Julia Sampson Haskell]

F. Friedrich

Translator of "Ueber dem blauen Meer" in Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns)

Julia S. Haskell

Author of "Über dem blauen Meer" [Julia W. Sampson] Sampson, J. W. Miss Sampson is set forth in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878, as the author of "Weary of wandering long" (Divine Guidance Desired). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Sampson, J. W., p. 1588, ii. Her hymn "Weary of wandering long" appeared in W. B. Bradbury's Golden Censer, 1864, p. 65 as by "Miss J. W. Sampson, Utica, N.Y." Other hymns with the same signature include "Sweetly sing, sweetly sing," in Bradbury's Golden Chain, 1861, p. 70, and "O, the Sabbath morning, beautiful and bright," in Happy Voice, 1865, No. 101. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ==================== 19th Century Died: After 1901. She was listed as living in her husband’s obituary in the Utica Sunday Journal, July 20, 1902. Haskell’s maiden name appears in an 1857 teacher’s directory of Utica, New York. She married Charles Freeman Haskell of Utica in 1866. An article in the July 6, 1876, issue of the Utica Daily Observer mentioned a poetry reading by her. Lyrics Heavenly Home Over the Ocean Wave Pilgrim Halting, Staff in Hand Sweetly Sing, Sweetly Sing This Life Is a Battle with Satan and Sin Weary of Wandering Long --www.hymntime.com/tch

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