I am writing this essay about my research paper for my music class and I search many topics in 19th Century but I would love to work on William Mason. The reason I choose this composer because he is third son of famous Composer Lowell Mason who known as founder of American school music education.
Early Days & Childhood.
Before I write on his career I would like to tell you that how he grew up and saw his father works in New England because childhood plays important role of the person life because you think in your childhood what you will do in your future so I am telling you that William Mason was born in Boston on January 24, 1829. In his childhood his father was originated the idea of assembling music-teachers in classes. In 1838, when the experiment was not more than three years old, one hundred and thirty-four teachers, representing ten States, assembled at the academy. Choir-singers and other musically inclined people from the towns lying within the surrounding district would gather at a central point, and he would hold a musical convention lasting for several days, drilling the singers in church music, but also, where he found sufficient advancement, in music of a higher order.
He had shown his fondness for music at a very early age. When, he was a child, his father was the organist of the Bowdoin Street Congregational Church in Boston, of which Lyman Beecher had been the pastor. When he was seven years old, he father placed him unexpectedly on the organ-bench at a public service, and while the choir sang the tune of "Boylston", he played the accompaniment. Up to this time he had but little instruction in pianoforte-playing. His mother used to sit by him and guide him in the way of careful practicing, and thus he had acquired considerable facility for those days, though now he has a feeling of compassion for anyone who had to listen to him in his childhood. William Mason felt that his father was as an accompanist, and when he went to musical conventions he took me along with him, and he would play the piano accompaniments while he conducted.
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