James H. Fillmore

From ChoralWiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Life

Born: 1849

Died: 1936

Biography

James Henry Fillmore was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Augustus Damon Fillmore, a minister in the Christian Church who was also a musical author and publisher. James was educated in the public schools and worked in the printing business. He soon left that work to teach congregational singing; he had success teaching music and selling music books. He and his brother Frank formed a successful music publishing firm–“Fillmore Brothers.” The firm published church and Sunday school songs, gospel songs, day-school songs, anthems, choruses, temperance and prohibition songs, general sheet music, and song collections. They also published the monthly music journal “The Musical Messenger.” His compositions typify those published by the firm. He died in in Cincinnati.

View the Wikipedia article on James H. Fillmore.

List of choral works

 
Click here to search for this composer on CPDL

Publications

External websites:

  • [<url> Description]