Abraham Wood (composer)

For the English fur trader, see Abraham Wood.

Abraham Wood (1752 –1804) ^[1] was one of the first American composers.^[2]

Wood was born in Massachusetts Bay Colony and was a drummer during the American Revolutionary War. He wrote Warren to commemorate the army officer Joseph Warren (1741–1775), who died courageously in the Battle of Bunker Hill and he wrote A Hymn on Peace to commemorate the Treaty of Paris that officially ended the Revolutionary War. This work was circulated as single pamphlet instead of part of a larger collection of sacred pieces, which was more common of the time.

Scores

Volume 6. Abraham Wood, The Collected Works, edited by Karl Kroeger. 144 pages, ISBN 0-8153-2301-8.

List of works

• Worcester (How beauteous are their feet)
• Marlborough
• Warren
• A Hymn on Peace
• Brevity (Man, born of woman)
• Walpole
• Hopkinton

Discography

• "A Hymn on Peace" and "Warren" on The Birth of Liberty - New World Records^[3]
• "Brevity (Man, born of woman)", "Walpole", and "Worcester (How beauteous are their feet)" on Early American Choral Music Volume 2 Anglo-American Psalmody 1550–1800 on Harmonia Mundi^[4]