New England Conservatory of Music - Neume Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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I4 THE NEUME l905 James Cutler Drmn Parker -AL ORN in Boston, 1828, of one of the oldest families. He was bred for the law and admitted to the bar before his musical bent asserted itself and sent him abroad to study music as his life work. He studied Q1851-4D at Leipsic under Moscheles, Plaidy, Hauptmann, Rietz, Richter and others, and on his return was for over thirty-five years organist at Trinity Church, Boston. He has written much music, almost exclusively of a religious char- acter. He was the first great American composer of large choral works, of which the principal are two sacred Cantatas, the Redemption Hymn and l' St. John, and a secular cantata, The Blind King. As a teacher his influence has been widespread and profound. In the early seventies he was the leading instructor at the New England Conservatory of Music, and his pupils always excelled. Mention should also be made of his scholarly translations from several different languages of various songs and of works on the theory and practice of music.

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