| Short Name: | Joseph Philbrick Webster |
| Full Name: | Webster, Joseph Philbrick, 1819-1875 |
| Birth Year: | 1819 |
| Death Year: | 1875 |
Webster composed and performed popular music. He studied with Lowell Mason and was active musically in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and directed a quartet company called the Euterpeans. In 1851, he moved to Madison, Indiana, followed by Chicago, Illinois (1855); Racine, Wisconsin (1856); and finally Elkhorn, Wisconsin (1859).
Webster wrote over a thousand ballads and many hymns. His most famous secular song was his 1857 Lorena (words by Henry D. L. Webster). In its day, it was said to have been second in popularity only to Stephen Foster’s Suwanee River, and was sung by thousands of soldiers on both sides of the American civil war. An instrumental version appears in the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, when Scarlett O’Hara is manning the stall at the charity dance in her mourning outfit. The tune also made an appearance in two John Ford films: The Searchers, 1956, arranged by Max Steiner, and The Horse Soldiers, 1959, arranged by David Buttolph.
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Tunes by Joseph Philbrick Webster (7) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| [In the sweet by and bye] (Chorus) | Joseph Philbrick Webster (Composer) | 1 | 34553 22344 44323 |
| REFUGE (Holbrook) | Jos. P. Webster (Composer) | 1 | 33314 33112 34654 |
| MARY'S GRIEF AND JOY | J. P. Webster (Composer) | 1 | 12351 64615 56531 |
| [The bells ring out, this Christmas morn] | Joseph Philbrick Webster (Composer) | 1 | 55555 55334 44655 |
| SWEET BY AND BY (Webster) | Joseph P. Webster (Composer) | 445 | 12321 21651 23335 |
| [We sing the song of Jesus] | J. P. Webster (Composer) | 1 | 56531 23216 53532 |
| [When His salvation bringing] (Webster) | J. P. Webster (Composer) | 1 | 12333 21553 56661 |
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