Elmer Samuel Hosmer

Elmer Samuel Hosmer (1862 – 1945) was an American composer. A native of Massachusetts, he studied with J. C. D. Parker and Percy Goetschius, and wrote a good deal of church music. He also composed a number of cantatas, including one about Christopher Columbus (Columbus: A Short Cantata for Men's Voices[1]) and one after "The Man Without a Country". He set a poem by Clara Hapgood Nash, "Mother", to music as a song.[2]

He taught music at the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence, for some years starting in 1924.[3]

References

  1. ^ Hosmer, Elmer Samuel. Columbus: A Short Cantata for Men's Voices. ISBN 1332977197.
  2. ^ "Clara Hapgood Nash: A Woman of Her Time and Ahead of It". Acton Historical Society. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State" (1937), page 172.
  • Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.


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