Hans Gram (1754-1804) was a Danish composer and musician who emigrated to the United States in the early 1780s. In Boston, Massachusetts, he served as organist of the Brattle Street Church, and as a music teacher. He lived in Charlestown; and in Boston on Belknap's Lane and Common Street. His music "was performed at the funeral of John Hancock." He died in Boston in 1804. In 1810 a "Hans Gram Musical Society" formed in Fryeburg, Maine.
Works
- Death Song of a Cherokee Indian. 1791
- (Compositions published in Massachusetts Magazine, ca.1791)
- Sacred Lines, for Thanksgiving Day
- Bind Kings with Chains, an anthem for Easter Sunday
- (Compiled and edited by Hans Gram, Samuel Holyoke and Oliver Holden).
- Hymn to Sleep. (Gram translated lyrics from German and added his verses)
References
Further reading
- "A Digraceful Practice." Boston Post; reprinted in: New Hampshire Gazette, 09-08-1846. Describes Gram drunk.
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop. A history of the church in Brattle street, Boston. W. Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1851. (Sermon #4, about Peter Thacher, describes the drama in 1790 of getting an organ).
- "Hans Gram." In:
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