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)
5012d ago
1 Piano Transcription
amer ttbb tlcinc (31)
5022d ago
3 Piano Original
amer beat satb tlcinc (31)
5022d ago
3 Piano, Vocal Original
american beautiful zaqzaq2 (2)
5042d ago
1 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
America the Beautiful JenKaMac (10)
5055d ago
12 Piano, Guitar, Vocal Original
America the Beautiful lover (86)
5077d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Other
America the Beautiful xilodragon (8)
5084d ago
1 Piano, Violin Original
America The Beautiful MaggieMBKMusic (2)
5099d ago
1 Piano Book
America the Beautiful NoharmDONE (1)
5112d ago
1 Piano Transcription
America, The Beautiful RoseTehPengi (5)
5147d ago
1 Clarinet Other
America The Beautiful robert95129512 (6)
5205d ago
1 Drum Original
America The Beautiful talln6e (5)
5213d ago
2 Piano, Vocal, Organ, Bass Other
America the Beautiful dreyn74 (1)
5414d ago
1 Piano, Vocal Transcription
america the beautiful razz (5)
5418d ago
4 Piano, Vocal Original
america the beautiful vaughn0943 (9)
5504d ago
1 Trumpet Original