Samuel A. Ward

Samuel A. Ward

Samuel A. WardSamuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters.
He is remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna", which he intended as a setting for the hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem". This was published ten years later, in 1892. In 1903, after Ward had died, the tune was first combined by a publisher with the Katharine Lee Bates poem "America", itself first published in 1895, to create the patriotic song "America the Beautiful."

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The longest time sano236 (234)
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10 Vocal Transcription
america the beautiful abross (8)
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1 Piano Transcription
amer ttbb tlcinc (31)
4889d ago
3 Piano Original
amer beat satb tlcinc (31)
4889d ago
3 Piano, Vocal Original
american beautiful zaqzaq2 (2)
4908d ago
1 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
America the Beautiful JenKaMac (10)
4922d ago
12 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
America the Beautiful lover (86)
4944d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Other
America the Beautiful xilodragon (8)
4950d ago
1 Piano, Violin Original
America The Beautiful MaggieMBKMusic (2)
4966d ago
1 Piano Book
America the Beautiful NoharmDONE (1)
4979d ago
1 Piano Transcription
America, The Beautiful RoseTehPengi (5)
5013d ago
1 Clarinet Other
America The Beautiful robert95129512 (6)
5071d ago
1 Drum Original
America The Beautiful talln6e (5)
5079d ago
2 Piano, Vocal, Organ, Bass Other
America the Beautiful dreyn74 (1)
5280d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Transcription
america the beautiful razz (5)
5284d ago
4 Piano, Vocal Original
america the beautiful vaughn0943 (9)
5371d ago
1 Trumpet Original