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Hans Gram (composer)

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Name
  
Hans Gram

Role
  
Composer

Died
  
1804


Hans Gram (1754-1804) was a Danish composer and musician who emigrated to the United States in the early 1780s. In Boston, Massachusetts, he served as organist of the Brattle Street Church, and as a music teacher. He lived in Charlestown; and in Boston on Belknap's Lane and Common Street. His music "was performed at the funeral of John Hancock." He died in Boston in 1804. In 1810 a "Hans Gram Musical Society" formed in Fryeburg, Maine.

Works

  • Death Song of a Cherokee Indian. 1791
  • (Compositions published in Massachusetts Magazine, ca.1791)
  • Sacred Lines, for Thanksgiving Day
  • Bind Kings with Chains, an anthem for Easter Sunday
  • Hans Gram (1795), The Massachusetts compiler of theoretical and practical elements of sacred vocal music, together with a musical dictionary and a variety of psalm tunes, chorusses, &c., chiefly selected or adapted from modern European publications, Boston: Printed by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews  (Compiled and edited by Hans Gram, Samuel Holyoke and Oliver Holden).
  • Hymn to Sleep. (Gram translated lyrics from German and added his verses)

    • References

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