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PALISADES

Composer: Leo Sowerby

Leo Sowerby (1895-1968) was born in Grand Rapids and studied at the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago (M.A. 1918). He served as regimental bandmaster with the 332nd Field Artillery Band in both England and France (1917-1919). He became the first fellow of the American Academy in Rome, where he studied for three years. He participated in the Salzburg Festival for Contemporary Music in 1923. From 1924 to 1963 he was on the faculty of the American Conservatory. He also was organist and choirmaster of St. James Church (1927-1963). Sowerby had an interest in folk music which he turned into wonderful compositions. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his Canticle of the Sun (1946). He died at Port Clinton, Ohio. --Presbyterian Hymnal Comp… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: PALISADES
Composer: Leo Sowerby (1941)
Meter: 8.8.8.8
Incipit: 16612 34211 33231
Key: G Major
Copyright: Copyright 1941 by The Church Pension Fund

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Three Preludes on Hymn Tunes by Leo Sowerby: Saint Cecilia Series Organ Compositions
    Composer/Editors Leo Sowerby; Peter Pindar Stearns
    Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1989) pp. 7

Instances

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Audio

The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #365

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