Short Name: | William B. Bradbury |
Full Name: | Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder), 1816-1868 |
Birth Year: | 1816 |
Death Year: | 1868 |
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
Texts by William B. Bradbury (29)![]() | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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A beautiful land by faith I see | Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Amas Kristo, amas min | W.B,Bradbury (1816-1868) (Author) | 2 | |
Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Dear Savior, if these lambs should stray | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Eia no lakou e Iesu | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Gladly I hail the morning of the Sabbath | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
He leadeth me: O blessed thought! | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Ho'omaika'i, ho'omaika'i, ho'omaika'i | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
How shall I be happy | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
In a manger laid so lowly | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so | Wm. B. B. (Author) | English | 3 |
Let the gospel trumpet sound | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
Let us pray for one another, let us pray for one another when we kneel | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
Lord of the gospel harvest, send | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Make ao e nauwe nei | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Mi esperanza está en Jesús | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
Nani e na wawae hele ma na mauna | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Nani ke 'Lii kiekie! | William B. Bradbury (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
No te dé temor hablar por Cristo | William B. Bradbury (Author) | Spanish | 6 |
Nothing either great or small remains for me to do | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
O come to the hills of glory | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
O Lord, responsive to Thy call, In life or death, whatever befall | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Softly now the light of day | Wm. B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer | W. B. B. (Author) | English | 1 |
The Bible, the Bible, More precious than gold | William Bachelder Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
The LORD be blessed, He heard my voice | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | English | 2 |
The Sunday school that blessed place | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 3 |
This life is a warfare, a warfare with sin | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
When this song of praise shall cease | William Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |