Horatio William Parker

PARKER, Horatio William. b. Auburndale, Massachusetts, 15 September 1863; d. Cedarhurst, New York, 18 December 1919. He received early music instruction on the piano and organ from his mother. He later studied composition with George Whitefield Chadwick and, from 1882-1885, with Josef Rheinberger at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. He then held teaching positions and was organist and choirmaster at various churches in New York City during the course of his stay there from 1885 through 1893. Here his best-known and most enduring composition, the oratorio Hora Novissima, was composed and premiered in 1893. Parker accepted a position at Trinity Church, Boston in the same year and in 1894...