Mason, Lowell

Mason, Lowell

▪ American composer
born Jan. 8, 1792, Medfield, Mass., U.S.
died Aug. 11, 1872, Orange, N.J.
 hymn composer, music publisher, and one of the founders of public-school music-education in the United States.

      Mason went to Savannah, Ga., as a bank clerk and became choirmaster at the Independent Presbyterian Church in that city. In 1822 he returned to Boston and published his famous and profitable The Handel and Haydn Society's Collection of Church Music. Between 1829 and 1869 he published about 20 similar collections of hymns. These collections favoured adaptations of tunes by prominent European composers rather than the traditional rural hymn tunes.

      In 1832 he founded the Boston Academy of Music, and in 1838 he established in Boston the first public-school music program in the United States. He was also influential in the training of music teachers. His compositions include the hymn tunes for “From Greenland's Icy Mountains,” “Nearer, My God, to Thee,” and “My Faith Looks Up to Thee.”

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