Faustina Hasse Hodges
Faustina Hasse Hodges (7 August 1823 – 4 February 1895)[1] was an English-American organist and composer. She was born in Malmesbury, England, the daughter of organist and composer Edward Hodges, who brought his family from England to America in 1838. Faustina Hodges taught music and also worked as a church organist in Brooklyn and Philadelphia, and began publishing songs and piano/organ music in the 1850s. She also wrote and published her father's biography. She died in Philadelphia.[2][3][4]
Works
Selected works include:
- L’Amicizia (Friendship)
- Tantum Ergo Opus 65, No. 2
- A psalm of life (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- Dreams: a reverie (Text: H.C.L.)
- The dreary day (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
- The holy dead (Text: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow after Ernst Stockmann)
- The rose bush (Text: W. W. Caldwell)[5]
References
- ^ "MusicSack". Retrieved June 17, 2012.
- ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers (Digitized online by GoogleBooks). Retrieved October 4, 2010.
- ^ Ammer, Christine (2001). Unsung: a history of women in American music.
- ^ Fuller, Sophie (1994). The Pandora guide to women composers: Britain and the United States.
- ^ "Composer: Faustina Hasse Hodges (1823-1895)". Retrieved December 20, 2010.
External links
- Free scores by Faustina Hasse Hodges at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Finding Aid (PDF) to the Hodges Papers at the Library of Congress
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- 1822 births
- 1895 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- Music educators
- English classical composers
- People from Malmesbury
- American female classical composers
- American classical composers
- English emigrants to the United States
- Musicians from Wiltshire
- Musicians from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 19th-century American musicians
- 19th-century English musicians
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs