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Short Name: | Septimus Winner |
Full Name: | Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902 |
Birth Year: | 1827 |
Death Year: | 1902 |
Born: May 11, 1827, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died: November 22, 1902, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried: Philadelphia. Pennsylvania.
Pseudonyms--
Alice Hawthorne (an arrangement of his mother’s maiden name)
Percy Guyer
Mark Mason
Paul Stenton
Winner was a well known poet, composer and violinist. A self taught musician, he also ran a music store, gave lessons on various instruments, and played in the Philadelphia Brass Band and Cecilian Musical Society. He wrote or edited over 200 volumes of music, for more than 20 instruments, and produced 2,000 arrangements for violin and piano. He wrote the song "Listen to the Mocking Bird," but sold the rights to it for the grand sum of five dollars; in the next few years, it sold 20,000,000 copies.
Sources:
Hughes, pp. 470-71
Johnson, p. 708
Jones, pp. 176-77
Randel, pp. 990-91
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/w/i/n/winner_s.htm
Texts by Septimus Winner (4) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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ദൂതരിൻ മന്ത്രിക്കും വാക്കാൽ ഊതും രഹസ്യ മർമ്മം (Dūtarin mantrikkuṁ vākkāl ūtuṁ rahasya marm'maṁ) | Septimus Winner (Author) | Malayalam | 2 |
Soft as the voice of an angel | Septimus Winner (Author) | English | 42 |
தேற்றிடும் தூதனின் செய்தி (Tēṟṟiṭum tūtaṉiṉ ceyti) | Septimus Winner (Author) | Tamil | 2 |
What is home without a mother | Septimus Winner (Author) | 3 |