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Browse piano sheets by William B. Bradbury on Zen Virtual Piano. William Batchelder Bradbury was born on 6 October 1816 in York, Maine, where his father was the director of a church choir. He began studying music at 17, when his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and he came under the tutelage of Lowell Mason and George Webb at their Academy of Music. A choir director’s son who started serious study at 17 reached the field by way of church music and a school in Boston. By 18 he had become an organist, and with the help of Lowell Mason he was offered teaching positions at two singing schools, in Machias, Maine, and in St. John, New Brunswick, before settling in New York City, where he worked as a music teacher, initially at the First Baptist Church in Brooklyn and then at the Baptist Tabernacle. A mentor’s help and a series of schools show how one teacher’s help could carry a young musician across several towns. By 1841 he was holding free singing classes for children, which became very popular, and he held Juvenile Music Festivals annually, where as many as a thousand uniformed children stood on risers together and sang under his direction. Free classes for children that became very popular suggest a teacher drawing his own audience. He was also instrumental in organizing music instruction in the New York public schools. A thousand uniformed children on risers is a picture of a teacher whose classroom was the whole stage. In 1847 he took a year off to travel to Germany, where he furthered his skills in harmony, composition, and vocal and instrumental music. After his return he started the Bradbury Piano Company with his brother Edward in New York City, and Bradbury pianos became known for having the traditional tone of an organ with the mechanics of a standard piano. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books, and he composed 2 cantatas, 30 anthems, 79 other sacred choral pieces and 921 hymn tunes. Fifty-nine books beside 921 hymn tunes make a working life measured in printed pages. Pianos, books and hymn tunes in one working life make the line between teacher, compiler and composer thin in his case. In 1862 he came across a poem in an 1860 novel titled Say and Seal, which was sung by a Sunday School teacher to a dying boy and was written by Anna Bartlett Warner, the sister of the novel’s author Susan Warner. He died on 7 January 1868 at the age of 51.
Browse piano sheets by William B. Bradbury on Zen Virtual Piano.
William Batchelder Bradbury was born on 6 October 1816 in York, Maine, where his father was the director of a church choir. He began studying music at 17, when his family moved to Boston, Massachusetts, and he came under the tutelage of Lowell Mason and George Webb at their Academy of Music. A choir director’s son who started serious study at 17 reached the field by way of church music and a school in Boston.
By 18 he had become an organist, and with the help of Lowell Mason he was offered teaching positions at two singing schools, in Machias, Maine, and in St. John, New Brunswick, before settling in New York City, where he worked as a music teacher, initially at the First Baptist Church in Brooklyn and then at the Baptist Tabernacle. A mentor’s help and a series of schools show how one teacher’s help could carry a young musician across several towns.
By 1841 he was holding free singing classes for children, which became very popular, and he held Juvenile Music Festivals annually, where as many as a thousand uniformed children stood on risers together and sang under his direction. Free classes for children that became very popular suggest a teacher drawing his own audience. He was also instrumental in organizing music instruction in the New York public schools. A thousand uniformed children on risers is a picture of a teacher whose classroom was the whole stage. In 1847 he took a year off to travel to Germany, where he furthered his skills in harmony, composition, and vocal and instrumental music.
After his return he started the Bradbury Piano Company with his brother Edward in New York City, and Bradbury pianos became known for having the traditional tone of an organ with the mechanics of a standard piano. He was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books, and he composed 2 cantatas, 30 anthems, 79 other sacred choral pieces and 921 hymn tunes. Fifty-nine books beside 921 hymn tunes make a working life measured in printed pages. Pianos, books and hymn tunes in one working life make the line between teacher, compiler and composer thin in his case. In 1862 he came across a poem in an 1860 novel titled Say and Seal, which was sung by a Sunday School teacher to a dying boy and was written by Anna Bartlett Warner, the sister of the novel’s author Susan Warner. He died on 7 January 1868 at the age of 51.
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He began studying music at 17 in Boston, where he came under the tutelage of Lowell Mason and George Webb at their Academy of Music.
A piano company he started with his brother Edward in New York City; Bradbury pianos became known for having the traditional tone of an organ with the mechanics of a standard piano.
He composed 921 hymn tunes, along with 2 cantatas, 30 anthems and 79 other sacred choral pieces, and he was the author and compiler of fifty-nine books.