William B. Bradbury Collection, 1846-1928
Span: 1846-1928
Bulk: 1847-1862
English
collection
1 ft.
3 boxes
William Batchelder Bradbury (1816-1868) was a noted hymn composer and music educator. As a youth, he attended Lowell Mason's Boston Academy of Music and sang in Mason's Boudoin Street Church Choir. After music study in Europe, Bradbury settled in New York City, where he taught and composed. In 1854 he formed the Bradbury piano company with his brother Edward. He is best known as the composer of the hymns "Jesus Loves Me," "He Leadeth Me," and "Just As I Am." The collection is rich in biographical material, including an unpublished biography titled "William B. Bradbury, His Life and Times," written by his granddaughter, Elma Marvin, and a biographical letter written in 1928 by Bradbury's son. Also important is an autograph sketchbook that Bradbury compiled while studying in Europe between 1847 and 1849. It contains short musical sketches by some of the leading musicians of the day, including Franz Abt, Niels Gade, Joseph Joachim, Jenny Lind, Albert Lorzing, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Ignaz Moscheles, Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Louis Spohr, Marianne Spohr, Richard Wagner, and others. Sketches by Felix Mendelssohn, Walter Damrosch, and Ignaz Paderewski were added later.
Biographical papers, music, correspondence, autograph album, photographs, clippings, miscelleneous documents.
William B. Bradbury Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Bradbury
Papers of 19th-century composer and church musician William B. Bradbury.
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Sacred Music
Musicians--Autographs
Bradbury, William
Abt, Franz
Gade, Niels
Joachim, Joseph
Lind, Jenny
Lorzing, Albert
Meyerbeer, Giacomo
Moscheles, Ignaz
Schumann, Clara
Schumann, Robert
Spohr, Louis
Spohr, Marianne
Wagner, Richard
Mendelssohn, Felix
Damrosch, Walter
Paderewski, Ignaz
Hauptmann, Susette
ML31.B7
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu004004
IHAS
110125
loc.natlib.scdb.200033856