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Hart Pease Danks (6 April 1834 – 20 November 1903) was a musician who specialized in composing, singing and leading choral groups. He is best known for his 1873 composition, ''Silver Threads Among the Gold''. ==Biography== Born in New Haven, Connecticut, Danks moved with his family to Saratoga Springs, New York when he was eight. He studied music with Dr. E. Whiting, later moving to Chicago, where he worked as a carpenter in his father's construction business before embarking on a full-time music career.〔Sanjek, Russell. (American popular music and its business: the first four hundred years, Vol. II 1790 to 1909 ), p. 255-56 (1988)〕 In 1858, he married Hattie R. Colahan.〔Bomberger, E. Douglas. (Brainard's biographies of American musicians ), p.79-80 (1999)〕 In 1864, he moved to New York City. In 1873, he published his best known song, "Silver Threads Among the Gold" (words by Eben E. Rexford), which sold over three million copies. Having sold the rights to it, though, he died penniless in a boarding house in Philadelphia, his last written words: "It’s hard to die alone".〔(21 November 1903). (Composer Found Dead Beside His Piano ), ''The New York Times''〕〔Hoag, Doane R. (8 July 1988). (His Love Ballad Was Not For Him ), ''Reading Eagle''〕 His widow died, alone, in 1924.〔Brisbane, Arthur (30 March 1924). (Today ), ''Pittsburgh Press''〕 Danks is buried at Kensico Cemetery, in Valhalla, New York. Pease Danks was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. He wrote over 1,000 songs.〔(The National cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. VIII ), p. 447 (1898)〕 His works also include several operettas, including for instance ''Zanie'' (published 1887, to a libretto by Fanny Crosby)〔who under many of her pseudonyms provided texts to many of his songs. See IMSLP and Neptune (2002) (sources for Crosby Wikipedia article)〕 and ''Pauline, or the Belle of Saratoga'' (ca.1874). 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「Hart Pease Danks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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