- Born
- December 28, 1848
- Died
- September 3, 1903
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00032506613 1 work
00872458307
- Comments
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Organist and composer.
He is remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna which he intended as a setting for the hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem This was published ten years later, in 1892.
In 1903, after Ward had died, the tune was first combined by a publisher with the Katharine Lee Bates poem, to create the patriotic song "America the Beautiful [Poem] The first book with the combination was published in 1910. Ward never met Bates.
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