Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
Holyoke Family Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameSamuel Adams HOLYOKE 
, M
, MBirth15 Oct 1762, Boxford, Essex, MA
Death22 Feb 1820, Concord, Merrimack, NH
BurialVillage Cemetery; Boxford, Essex, MA
FatherRev. Elizur HOLYOKE , M (1731-1806)
MotherHannah PEABODY , F (1736-1808)
Notes for Samuel Adams HOLYOKE
• Some records record his death date as “7 Feb 1820”
• America's first professional composer and the most prolific of his time, Holyoke produced several compilations of psalm tunes and other pieces between 1791 and 1807 … producing some 600 compositions … many are psalm-tunes, published in his various tune books. For more information and listen to recorded Hymns check out the following website: https://hymnary.org/person/Holyoke_S?tab=tunes
• Never Married
• He had a fine voice and was composing music before he had graduated from college.
• His most popular, and his favorite was Arnheim, which he wrote when he was sixteen years old.
• During the year he graduated from college he contributed four compositions to Isaiah Thomas’s Massachusetts Magazine (Aug. 1789, Sept. 1789, May 1790 & Sept.1790).
• For the funeral of American President George Washington, Holyoke wrote the tunes for two hymns by Isaac Watts.
• His other works include, but not limited to, Harmonia Americana (1791), Columbia Repository of Sacred Harmony (abt 1802), The Massachusetts Compiler (1795), The Christian Harmonist (1804) and The Instrumental Assistant (1800 -07).
• After his death, his music was largely forgotten. However, his importance to American music can be summed up by a quote by the historian George Hood: “There was no man of his day that did more for the cause of music than Samuel HOLYOKE.”
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• 1789 Harvard Graduate, begins teaching music
• 1792 Earns MA degree from Harvard
• 1793 became the organizer of Groton, later Lawrence Academy.
• 1795 Oliver Holden, Hans Gram & Samuel HOLYOKE published “The Massachusetts Compiler of Theoretical Principles.”
• 1798 founder of Essex Musical Association in Salem, MA
• 1800 Published “The Instrumental Assistant I.”
• 1802 Published “Columbian Repository of Scared Harmony.”
• Became a Free & Accepted Mason
• 1804 Published “The Christian Harmonist.”
• 1806 ,Following his father’s death, his fortunes start to decline and for the next decade he barely manages to get by opening a music school in Salem and becomes a teacher.
• 1807 Published “Instrumental Assistant II.”
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• America's first professional composer and the most prolific of his time, Holyoke produced several compilations of psalm tunes and other pieces between 1791 and 1807 … producing some 600 compositions … many are psalm-tunes, published in his various tune books. For more information and listen to recorded Hymns check out the following website: https://hymnary.org/person/Holyoke_S?tab=tunes
• Never Married
• He had a fine voice and was composing music before he had graduated from college.
• His most popular, and his favorite was Arnheim, which he wrote when he was sixteen years old.
• During the year he graduated from college he contributed four compositions to Isaiah Thomas’s Massachusetts Magazine (Aug. 1789, Sept. 1789, May 1790 & Sept.1790).
• For the funeral of American President George Washington, Holyoke wrote the tunes for two hymns by Isaac Watts.
• His other works include, but not limited to, Harmonia Americana (1791), Columbia Repository of Sacred Harmony (abt 1802), The Massachusetts Compiler (1795), The Christian Harmonist (1804) and The Instrumental Assistant (1800 -07).
• After his death, his music was largely forgotten. However, his importance to American music can be summed up by a quote by the historian George Hood: “There was no man of his day that did more for the cause of music than Samuel HOLYOKE.”
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• 1789 Harvard Graduate, begins teaching music
• 1792 Earns MA degree from Harvard
• 1793 became the organizer of Groton, later Lawrence Academy.
• 1795 Oliver Holden, Hans Gram & Samuel HOLYOKE published “The Massachusetts Compiler of Theoretical Principles.”
• 1798 founder of Essex Musical Association in Salem, MA
• 1800 Published “The Instrumental Assistant I.”
• 1802 Published “Columbian Repository of Scared Harmony.”
• Became a Free & Accepted Mason
• 1804 Published “The Christian Harmonist.”
• 1806 ,Following his father’s death, his fortunes start to decline and for the next decade he barely manages to get by opening a music school in Salem and becomes a teacher.
• 1807 Published “Instrumental Assistant II.”
[S:6], [S:21], [S:54], [S:54], [S:53], [S:165]