Baker, B. F.; Southard, L. H. The Haydn Collection of Church Music; selected and arranged from the works of Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Winter, Weber, Paer, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Cherubini, and others, together with many original compositions. Boston: Charles H. Pierce, 1850. [11328]
Brown leather spine with printed paper boards (hardcover), paper is scuffed and soiled with some loss, oblong 6 x 9 3/4 inches, joints are good. Lacks the front and back free end papers (blanks). Illustration of Hayden on front and on the title page; advert for the publisher on the bottom board. 352 clean pages; pencil signature on the front paste-down. Good. Hardcover.
"Stereotyped by A. B. Kidder, 7 Cornhill" on the copyright page. "Principles of Musical Notation" and "Glossary of Musical Terms," pp. [5]-39.
The music is in four parts with round notes.
Benjamin Franklin Baker (1811-1889), b. Wenham, Ma. A music teacher in public schools, the principal of the Boston Music School, for six years the Vice-President of the Handel and Hayden Society, Boston. As a composer he was prolific. He edited a large number of church music, school instruction, glee, and other music books.
Lucien H. Southard (1827-1881), b. Sharon, Vermont; d. Augusta, Georgia. Southard was the music director at First Church in Boston, and after service in the Union Army was made director of the Conservatory of the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, organizing and directing their orchestra. He was also the first director of the Baltimore Academy of Music.
