Description: Benjamin Carr portrait

Benjamin Carr portrait

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Box Number:	Box Volume XVIII Pages 1341-1390
Folder Number:	Folder p. 1373
Format:	Electronic
Subjects and Genres:	Carr, Benjamin Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788 Art Print
Copyright:	Please contact Historical Society of Pennsylvania Rights and Reproductions (rnr@hsp.org)
Online Access:	https://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/objects/13730
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Summary:	Portrait of Benjamin Carr from the David McNeely Stauffer collection on Westcott's History of Philadelphia [1095]. Carr was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher. He moved to Philadelphia in 1797, where he became a prominent member of the city’s musical life. He was "decidedly the most important and prolific music publisher in America during the 1790s (as well as one of its most distinguished composers), conducting, in addition to his Philadelphia business, a New York branch from 1794 to 1797, when it was acquired by James Hewitt." He was well known as a teacher of keyboard and singing, and he served as organist and choirmaster at St. Augustine's Catholic Church (1801–31) and at St. Peter's Episcopal Church (1816–31). In 1820 he was one of the principal founders of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, and he is known as the "Father of Philadelphia Music." Carr's best known orchestral work was the Federal Overture (1794), composed for theatrical audiences. He published many of his own art songs, and was perhaps the first American composer to set a Shakespeare text to music, and his setting of Scott's Hymn to the Virgin (1810) is generally considered one of the finest early American songs. His piano music includes shorter sonatas, rondos and variation forms; much of it was written for pedagogical purposes, although a few works are more technically advanced. He also wrote several important pedagogical works, including the Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music (c.1811) and The Analytical Instructor for the Piano Forte (1826). This digital record contains one image of one portrait a folder labeled as: "1373," from a box labeled as: "The History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829 by Thompson Westcott as printed in the Sunday Dispatch Extra-Illustrated by David McNeely Stauffer Presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania February 5, 1913 Dismounted and deacified, 1974 Volume XVIII Pages 1341-1390"

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Portrait of Benjamin Carr from the David McNeely Stauffer collection on Westcott's History of Philadelphia [1095]. Carr was an American composer, singer, teacher, and music publisher. He moved to Philadelphia in 1797, where he became a prominent member of the city’s musical life. He was "decidedly the most important and prolific music publisher in America during the 1790s (as well as one of its most distinguished composers), conducting, in addition to his Philadelphia business, a New York branch from 1794 to 1797, when it was acquired by James Hewitt." He was well known as a teacher of keyboard and singing, and he served as organist and choirmaster at St. Augustine's Catholic Church (1801–31) and at St. Peter's Episcopal Church (1816–31). In 1820 he was one of the principal founders of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, and he is known as the "Father of Philadelphia Music." Carr's best known orchestral work was the Federal Overture (1794), composed for theatrical audiences. He published many of his own art songs, and was perhaps the first American composer to set a Shakespeare text to music, and his setting of Scott's Hymn to the Virgin (1810) is generally considered one of the finest early American songs. His piano music includes shorter sonatas, rondos and variation forms; much of it was written for pedagogical purposes, although a few works are more technically advanced. He also wrote several important pedagogical works, including the Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music (c.1811) and The Analytical Instructor for the Piano Forte (1826).

This digital record contains one image of one portrait a folder labeled as: "1373," from a box labeled as: "The History of Philadelphia, 1609-1829 by Thompson Westcott as printed
in the Sunday Dispatch Extra-Illustrated by David McNeely Stauffer
Presented to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania February 5, 1913
Dismounted and deacified, 1974 Volume XVIII Pages 1341-1390"

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