Isaac B. Woodbury

American composer

Isaac Baker Woodbury (October 23, 1819 – 1858)^[1] was a 19th-century composer and publisher of church music, most famous for publishing The Dulcimer: or the New York Collection of Sacred Music,^[2] one of the best-known collections of Christian hymns of the era.^[3] His best-known hymn tunes include Siloam and Esmonton. He also published the American Monthly Musical Review^[4] and the New York Musical Pioneer.^[5]

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts,^[1] Woodbury was the son of Isaac Woodbury and Nancy Baker, and studied music in London and Paris before embarking upon a career as a church organist, writer, editor, and teacher in Boston and New York. In total he published fifteen books of sacred music and fourteen books of school and secular music; he also founded the National Music Convention. Woodbury fell ill with tuberculosis and traveled south for his health, dying while visiting Charleston, South Carolina.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Metcalf, pg. 282
^ Woodbury, I. B. (1850). The Dulcimer: or the New York Collection of Sacred Music. New York: Huntington and Savage. OCLC 58769825.
^ Chase, pg. 144
^ Wright, pg. 367
^ Banco, Leonard. "American Periodicals: Music (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library): Watkinson Publications". Weird Tales. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ David Warren Steel; Richard H. Hulan (2010). The Makers of the Sacred Harp. University of Illinois Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-0-252-07760-9.

Sources

Chase, Gilbert (2000). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00454-X.
Metcalf, Frank J. (2007). American Writers and Compilers of Sacred Music. Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4067-5144-4.
Wright, Henry Parks (1914). History of the Class of 1868: Yale College, 1864-1914. Yale University Class of 1868. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press.