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Life
Born: 13 May 1746 in Bolton, Tolland County, Connecticut
Died: 20 Oct 1815 in Smithfield, New York
Biography
Oliver Brownson was an American composer, who lived in Connecticut for much of his life. In 1775 he married Sarah Merrels, and they had at least one child. Oliver Brownson was a singing master in Connecticut during the last two to three decades of the 18th Century.
List of choral works
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- Colchester (Great God, the heav'ns well-ordered frame) (2 editions available)
- Salisbury (God of my salvation, hear) (2 editions available)
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Publications
- Select Harmony, Containing the Necessary Rules of Psalmody, Together With a Collection of Approved Psalm Tunes, Hymns and Anthems, by Oliver Brownson. Hartford, Connecticut, 1783. 100 pp.
- A new Collection of Sacred Harmony. Simsbury, Connecticut, 1797.
References
- Steel, David Warren; Richard H. Hulan. 2010. The makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press. 321 pp.