Hans Gram (composer) facts for kids

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Hans Gram (1754-1804) was a Danish composer and musician who emigrated to the United States in the early 1780s. In Boston, Massachusetts, he served as organist of the Brattle Street Church, and as a music teacher. He lived in Charlestown; and in Boston on Belknap's Lane and Common Street. His music "was performed at the funeral of John Hancock." He died in Boston in 1804. In 1810 a "Hans Gram Musical Society" formed in Fryeburg, Maine.

Works

Death Song of a Cherokee Indian. 1791
(Compositions published in Massachusetts Magazine, ca.1791)
Sacred Lines, for Thanksgiving Day
Bind Kings with Chains, an anthem for Easter Sunday
(Compiled and edited by Hans Gram, Samuel Holyoke and Oliver Holden).
Hymn to Sleep. (Gram translated lyrics from German and added his verses)

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