Lewis Edson

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Life

Born: 22 January 1748, Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

Died: 1820

Biography

Lewis Edson was an American writer of choral music of the late 18th century. From 1776 to 1791 he lived in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, and Mink Hollow, New York, where he worked as a blacksmith.

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List of choral works

  • Greenfield   (God is our refuge in distress)
  • Lenox   (Ye tribes of Adam, join)


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References

  • Steel, David Warren; Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 321 pp.

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