Isaac B. Woodbury

Isaac Baker Woodbury (October 23, 1819 – 1858)[1] was a 19th-century composer and publisher of church music, most famous for publishing The Dulcimer: or the New York Collection of Sacred Music,[2] one of the best-known collections of Christian hymns of the era.[3] His best-known hymn tunes include Siloam and Esmonton. He also published the American Monthly Musical Review[4] and the New York Musical Pioneer.[5]

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts,[1] Woodbury was the son of Isaac Woodbury and Nancy Baker, and studied music in London and Paris before embarking upon a career as a church organist, writer, editor, and teacher in Boston and New York. In total he published fifteen books of sacred music and fourteen books of school and secular music; he also founded the National Music Convention. Woodbury fell ill with tuberculosis and traveled south for his health, dying while visiting Charleston, South Carolina.[6]

  1. ^ a b Metcalf, pg. 282
  2. ^ Woodbury, I. B. (1850). The Dulcimer: or the New York Collection of Sacred Music. New York: Huntington and Savage. OCLC 58769825.
  3. ^ Chase, pg. 144
  4. ^ Wright, pg. 367
  5. ^ Banco, Leonard. "American Periodicals: Music (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library): Watkinson Publications". Weird Tales. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ David Warren Steel; Richard H. Hulan (2010). The Makers of the Sacred Harp. University of Illinois Press. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-0-252-07760-9.