Short Name: | William B. Bradbury |
Full Name: | Bradbury, William B. (William Batchelder), 1816-1868 |
Birth Year: | 1816 |
Death Year: | 1868 |
William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life.
John Perry
Texts by William B. Bradbury (28) | As | Authority Languages | Instances |
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When this song of praise shall cease | William Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
This life is a warfare, a warfare with sin | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
The Sunday school that blessed place | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 3 |
The Bible, the Bible, More precious than gold | William Bachelder Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer | W. B. B. (Author) | English | 1 |
Softly now the light of day | Wm. B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
O Lord, responsive to Thy call, In life or death, whatever befall | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
O come to the hills of glory | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
Nothing either great or small remains for me to do | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
No te dé temor hablar por Cristo | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Spanish | 6 |
Nani ke 'Lii kiekie! | William B. Bradbury (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Nani e na wawae hele ma na mauna | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Mi esperanza está en Jesús | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | Spanish | 2 |
Make ao e nauwe nei | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Lord of the gospel harvest, send | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Let us pray for one another, let us pray for one another when we kneel | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
Let the gospel trumpet sound | William Batchelder Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so | Wm. B. B. (Author) | English | 3 |
In a manger laid so lowly | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
How shall I be happy | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 1 | |
Ho'omaika'i, ho'omaika'i, ho'omaika'i | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
He leadeth me: O blessed thought! | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Gladly I hail the morning of the Sabbath | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
Eia no lakou e Iesu | William B. Bradbury, 1816-1868 (Author) | Hawaiian | 2 |
Dear Savior, if these lambs should stray | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep | William B. Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |
Amas Kristo, amas min | William B. Bradbury (Author) | 2 | |
A beautiful land by faith I see | Bradbury (Author) | English | 1 |