Horatio Parker

Horatio William Parker ( born September 15, 1863 in Auburndale, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † December 18, 1919 in Cedarhurst, New York) was an American composer.

Parker studied in Boston with Stephen Albert Emery and George Chadwick and from 1881 with Joseph Rheinberger in Munich. Thereafter, he worked in New York City as an organist and choir director and teacher at the National Conservatory of Music. In 1894 he was appointed professor at Yale University, where he founded the Symphonic Orchestra. Among his students, among others Roger Sessions, Douglas Moore, and Charles Ives.

Parker composed two operas ( Mona, 1911, Fairyland, 1914), a symphonic poem, a Concertino for organ, chamber music, oratorios (including Hora novissima by Bernard of Cluny ) and cantatas, choral works, organ and piano pieces and songs.