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Elmer Samuel Hosmer (1862 – 1945) was an American composer. A native of Massachusetts, he studied with J. C. D. Parker and Percy Goetschius, and wrote a good deal of church music. He also composed a number of cantatas, including one about Christopher Columbus (Columbus: A Short Cantata for Men's Voices) and one after "The Man Without a Country". He set a poem by Clara Hapgood Nash, "Mother", to music as a song.

He taught music at the Rhode Island College of Education in Providence, for some years starting in 1924.

References

1. Hosmer, Elmer Samuel. Columbus: A Short Cantata for Men's Voices. ISBN 1332977197.
2. "Clara Hapgood Nash: A Woman of Her Time and Ahead of It". Acton Historical Society. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
3. "Rhode Island, a Guide to the Smallest State" (1937), page 172.

• Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.

External links

• Free scores by Elmer Samuel Hosmer at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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