Carl Gotthelf Gläser

GLÄSER, Carl Gotthelf.  b. Weissenfels, Saxony (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany), 4 May 1784; d. Barmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 16 April 1829. He was educated at St Thomas’ School, Leipzig, and was also taught music by his father. He became an accomplished violinist and a composer. He taught piano and violin at Barmen. When Lowell Mason* visited Europe in 1832 he was on the lookout for new tunes, and found one by Gläser that he named AZMON. According to Reynolds (1976, p.112) it was published in his Modern Psalmist (Boston, 1839): the preface to this book lists composers whose tunes Mason had found, including ‘Gläser’, though with the initials ‘J.M.’. In The Sabbath Hymn and Tune Book of 1859...