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Lowell Mason

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Profession
Composer
Died
Aug 11, 1872
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
Massachusetts
About
Remembered as both a music educator and a composer of hymns, this nineteenth-century musician helped establish the Boston Academy of Music and was responsible for the popular musical setting of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb," as well as for much-loved arrangements of the Christian hymns "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "Joy to the World."
Family
He spent his early years in Medfield, Massachusetts, and later lived and worked in Savannah, Georgia; Boston, Massachusetts; and New York, New York. His children, Lowell, Jr. and Daniel, also pursued music careers.

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