Samuel Parkman Tuckerman
Samuel Parkman Tuckerman (February 11, 1819 – June 30, 1890) was an American composer.
Biography
He was born in Boston to Edward Francis Tuckerman and Sophia May. His siblings were Edward Tuckerman, the botanist and Amherst professor, Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, the poet, and Sophia May (Tuckerman) Eckley. Samuel married Mary Olivia Edwards Perry on October 15, 1845. They had a daughter, Mary Perry, born November 11, 1846. He attended Chauncy Hall School in Boston.
He studied with Charles Zeuner, and was then for several years organist at St. Paul's Church, Boston. During this time he published The Episcopal Harp (1844) and The National Lyre (1848), the latter with Silas A. Bancroft and Henry K. Oliver. He went to England in 1849, and the degree of Mus. Doc. was conferred on him by the archbishop of Canterbury in 1853. In the preceding year he had received a diploma from the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome.
After returning to the United States he lectured on sacred music, and gave performances of church music of the period from the 4th to the 19th centuries. He went again to England in 1856, and a third time in 1868, returning in 1879.
He died in Newport, Rhode Island and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Work
As a composer he gave his attention chiefly to sacred music, principally services, hymns, and anthems for the Episcopal Church service.[1] He compiled Cathedral Chants (London, 1852) and Trinity Collection of Church Music (1864).
Notes
- ↑
Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Tuckerman, Samuel Parkman". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889). "Tuckerman, Joseph". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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