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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.〔One of his students, "born blind and but 15 years of age," played organ at the Universal Meeting House. Columbian Centinel, 05-02-1792〕 He lived in Charlestown;〔Columbian Centinel, 02-18-1795〕 and in Boston on Belknap's Lane〔Boston Directory. 1798〕 and Common Street.〔Boston Directory. 1800, 1803〕 His music "was performed at the funeral of John Hancock."〔"According to a manuscript note by Oscar Sonneck at the Library of Congress." Gillian B. Anderson. "The Funeral of Samuel Cooper." New England Quarterly, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Dec., 1977)〕 He died in Boston in 1804.〔"Died, in this town, after a lingering illness, Hans Gram, Esq. formerly of Copenhagen..." The Repertory (Boston), 05-08-1804〕〔"...Though he possessed a peculiar eccentricity of character, yet he had virtues to imitate, and talents to admire ... his ambitions, usefulness, and talents, became obscured -- and, as monuments erected to human honor and glory decay by the violence of storms ... he gradually mouldered away. Alas! how unstable is human knowledge and worth!" Boston Centinel, reprinted in: Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 05-11-1804〕 In 1810 a "Hans Gram Musical Society" formed in Fryeburg, Maine.〔Bray, Oliver. An Oration on Music pronounced at Fryeburg, before the Hans Gram Musical Society on their First Anniversary, October 10, 1811. Portland, 1812.〕〔Massachusetts Register. 1813, 1816, 1817〕 ==Works== * Death Song of a Cherokee Indian. 1791 * (Compositions published in Massachusetts Magazine, ca.1791) * Sacred Lines, for Thanksgiving Day〔"For singing schools & societies. Thomas and Andrews, Faust's statue, no.45 Newbury-street, Boston." Salem Gazette 11-18-1794〕 * Bind Kings with Chains, an anthem for Easter Sunday〔Salem Gazette 11-18-1794〕 * (Compiled and edited by Hans Gram, Samuel Holyoke and Oliver Holden).〔The ''Massachusetts Compiler'' "was largely influential in establishing the custom of using seven syllables in the scale (do, re, me, fa, sol, la, si) in place of the four syllables (fa, sol, la, mi)." Robert G. McCutchan. "American Church Music Composers of the Early Nineteenth Century." Church History, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Sep., 1933)〕 * Hymn to Sleep. (Gram translated lyrics from German and added his verses)〔Boston Evening Gazette, reprinted in: Hallowell Gazette, 02-15-1815〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hans Gram (composer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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