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William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "[Shout again the glad hosanna]" in The Little Seraph William Batchelder 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
William B. Bradbury

Henry Stevenson Washburn

1813 - 1903 Author of "The glad hosanna" Washburn, Henry S., was born at Providence, Rhode Island, June 10, 1813; spent his boyhood at Kingston, Massachusetts, and was educated at Worcester and Brown University. Subsequently he was a manufacturer at Worcester and Boston. Since 1875 he has been the President of the Union Mutual Life Insurance Co. Mr. Washburn has held some prominent posts, and has been active in public matters. He has written various hymns and songs, the best known of which is:— Let every heart rejoice and sing . National Hymn. This "was written for a celebration in Faneuil Hall, Boston, July 4, 1842, and sung by the Sunday School Children of the city." It was set to music by Garcia, and often subsequently used at home and abroad. The author altered it for The Psalmist, 1843, No. 1005; and in that form it has been generally known. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Henry Stevenson Washburn

Henry Wells Hardy

1820 - 1893 Person Name: W. H. Hardy Author of "The Glad hosanna" in The Little Seraph Born: 1820, Chel­sea, Lon­don, England. Died: Jan­u­a­ry 1893, East­bourne, Sus­sex, Eng­land. Henry’s par­ents were Will­iam Wells Har­dy and So­phia Hardy. In the ear­ly part of his ca­reer, he held var­i­ous or­gan ap­point­ments in Eng­land, in­clud­ing or­gan­ist of the par­ish church of Ot­tery St. Ma­ry, Dev­on, and in Ber­bice, Bri­tish Gui­a­na (now Guy­a­na). The 1851 Bri­tish cen­sus lists him as a Pro­fess­or of Mu­sick, liv­ing in Ot­tery St. Ma­ry with his wife Har­ri­ett (a gov­ern­ess) and their two-year-old daugh­ter Edith (who had been born in Ber­bice). In the mid-1850s the fam­i­ly moved to East­bourne, where they would make their home at Ber­bice Vil­la, Hard­wick Road. By 1859, Har­dy was ad­ver­tis­ing his ser­vic­es in the East­bourne Ga­zette as a teach­er of the pi­a­no, or­gan and sing­ing, and as a sell­er or hir­er of pi­a­nos. He be­came or­gan­ist of East­bourne Par­ish Church (St. Mary’s) in 1854, and of St. Sav­iour’s Church in the same town in 1869, hold­ing both posts un­til 1870. By 1869, he had be­come first mu­sic mas­ter of East­bourne Col­lege (found­ed 1867), where he would re­main un­til 1873. From 1870-2 he played the or­gan at All Saints’ Church, Pad­ding­ton, Lon­don. By 1876, he was a pro­fess­or of mu­sic in Lon­don and East­bourne, and choir­mas­ter at St. Paul’s Church, East­bourne. He al­so con­duct­ed the East­bourne Chor­al So­ci­e­ty for at least two de­cades. Af­ter his death, the East­bourne Her­ald Chron­i­cle ob­served, Mr. Hardy was wide­ly known and his death will be de­plored by a large cir­cle of friends." Cyber Hymnal
Henry Wells Hardy

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