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Horatio Parker | Musical Moments with Philip Brunelle

February 23, 2021

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In this Musical Moment, VocalEssence artistic director and founder Philip Brunelle shares insider information and beautiful music by the composer Horatio Parker. 

Horatio Parker

1863-1919

Horatio William Parker received his earliest musical training from his mother who instructed him in piano, organ, and music theory. He went on to study composer George Chadwick, with whom Parker maintained a lifelong friendship. Although he began composing small pieces, Parker’s first major works were composed under Josef Rheinberger while he attended the Hochschule für Musik in Munich from 1882 to 1885. From 1885 to 1893, Parker worked as organist and choirmaster at a series of churches in Brooklyn, Harlem, and the Church of the Holy Trinity in Manhattan. His church music career in New York led to the composition and publication of a significant number of anthems and other sacred works. He then accepted a faculty position at Yale, where his students included Charles Ives, Seth Bingham, Quincy Porter, and Roger Sessions. His early training in Munich led him to compose several part-songs for male chorus and a large number of secular cantatas, including The Dream-King and His Love, King Gorm the Grim for the Norfolk Festival, and Seven Greek Pastoral Scenes for the Eurydice Chorus of Philadelphia. Parker’s most impressive accomplishment within the choral genre is his oratorio, Hora novissima; which is considered by many to be a choral masterpiece. 

Suggested Choral Pieces:

  1. Light’s Glittering Morn Bedecks the Sky (Fred Bock Music F2315) 
  2. Jam Sol Recedit (Novello 280673)  
  3. Hora novissima (Kalmus K06815) 
Posted in: Musical Moments
Tags: Composers of the 17th 18th and 19th Centuries • United States Composers

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