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Hymns / Music :: George Frederick Root

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1864 Edition Born: August 30, 1820, Sheffield, Massachusetts.

Died: August 6, 1895, Bailey Island, Maine.

Buried: North Reading, Massachusetts.

Pseudonyms:

  • Wurzel (German for “Root”)
  • G. Friedrich Wurzel
 George Frederick Root (1820-1895)

Root’s musical talents were evident at an early age. By the time he was 13, he was proud that he could play a tune on as many instruments as his age. In 1838, Root moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied under George J. Webb. In 1845, he moved to New York City, playing the organ at the Church of the Strangers, and teaching music at the Abbott Institute for Young Ladies. In 1850, he toured Europe for a year. Afterward, he started working with Lowell Mason, at Boston’s Academy of Music. In 1851, Root began composing. One of his best known songs is “The Battle Cry of Freedom.” In 1859, Root began work at his brother’s company, Root and Cady, in Chicago, Illinois. In 1872, the University of Chicago awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music degree. Root’s works include:

  • The Young Ladies Choir, 1846
  • The Pilgrim Fathers, 1854
  • Belshazzar’s Feast, 1860
  • The Haymakers, 1857
  • The Story of a Musical Life, 1891, an autobiography

Music:

  1. Behold the Bridegroom Cometh (2)
  2. Come to the Savior
  3. Jerusalem, Thou City Bright
  4. Lowry
  5. O Where Are the Reapers?
  6. Ring the Bells
  7. Rosedale
  8. She Only Touched the Hem of His Garment
  9. Suffer Little Children
  10. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
  11. We Come in Childhood’s Joyfulness
  12. When He Cometh
  13. Why Do You Wait?
    14.
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