About Elmer Samuel Hosmer
Lived 1862 – 1945 (aged 83). Elmer Samuel Hosmer was an American composer and teacher.
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 ) and one after "The Man Without a Country". He set a poem by Clara Hapgood Nash, "Mother", to music as a song.
He taught music at the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence, for some years starting in 1924.
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Who was Elmer Samuel Hosmer?
American composer and teacher
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Elmer Samuel Hosmer was born on 21 March 1862 in Clinton.
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Elmer Samuel Hosmer died on 25 April 1945 in Pawtucket.
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Elmer Samuel Hosmer was a composer and teacher.
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Elmer Samuel Hosmer was American.
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