A portrait of Supply Belcher, executed during his lifetime
Supply Belcher (March 29, 1751 – June 9, 1836) was an American composer, singer, and compiler of tune books. He was one of the so-called Yankee tunesmiths or First New England School, a group of mostly self-taught composers who created sacred vocal music for local choirs. He was active first in Lexington, Massachusetts, then eventually moved to Farmington, Maine. Like most of his colleagues, Belcher could not make music his main occupation, and worked as tax assessor, schoolmaster, town clerk, and so on; nevertheless he was considerably well known for his musical activities, and even dubbed 'the Handell [sic] of Maine' by a local newspaper. Most of his works survive in The Harmony of Maine, a collection Belcher published himself in Boston in 1794.
SupplyBelcher (March 29, 1751 – June 9, 1836) was an American composer, singer, and compiler of tune books. He was one of the so-called Yankee tunesmiths...
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exclusively with European models, while others, such as William Billings, SupplyBelcher, Daniel Read, Oliver Holden, Justin Morgan, Andrew Law, Timothy Swan...
composer (died 1821) March 5 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, composer March 29 – SupplyBelcher, singer, composer and compiler of tune books (died 1836) July 30 – Maria...
First New England School. Following Billings' pioneering footsteps were SupplyBelcher, Andrew Law, Daniel Read, Jacob Kimball, Jeremiah Ingalls, John Wyeth...
Taste and other works. The principal tunesmiths were William Billings, SupplyBelcher, Daniel Read, Oliver Holden, Justin Morgan, Lewis Edson, Andrew Law...
William Billings, Daniel Read, Jacob French, Timothy Swan, Stephen Jenks, SupplyBelcher, Abraham Maxim, Lewis Edson, Joseph Stone, Elisha West, Justin Morgan...
Center Meeting House Cemetery. He was the son of SupplyBelcher. United States Congress. "Hiram Belcher (id: B000321)". Biographical Directory of the United...
(1749–1821) Elias Mann (1750–1825) David Moritz Michael (1751–1827) SupplyBelcher (1751–1836) Abraham Wood (1752–1804) Jacob French (1754–1817) Asahel...
William Billings, Daniel Read, Nehemiah Shumway, Stephen Jenks, and SupplyBelcher. Of these, the best represented is Billings, with 14 songs in the Denson...
1810) (drowned) May 28 – Anton Reicha, composer (b. 1770) June 9 – SupplyBelcher, composer, singer, and compiler of tune books (b. 1751) June 26 – Claude...
(his father Andrew Belcher was a tavern owner in Cambridge and grandfather who immigrated to Massachusetts Bay from England), Belcher attended Harvard College...
Read, along with his contemporaries William Billings, Oliver Holden, SupplyBelcher, and Justin Morgan, was one of the primary members of a group of American...
great-grandson of Jonathan Belcher, who served as a colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. Belcher was born in Halifax, Nova...
masters, including Daniel Read (later of New Haven, Connecticut) and SupplyBelcher (later of Farmington, Maine). Massachusetts is home to several formal...
Stoughton Musical Society and other performing organizations: 18th century SupplyBelcher, b. 1751/ d. 1836 (Farmington, Maine) Samuel Capen, b. 1745/ d. 1809...
Beintus (born 1966) Sadao Bekku (1922–2012) Luca Belcastro (born 1964) SupplyBelcher (1751–1836) Laurent Belissen (1693–1762) William Henry Bell (1873–1946)...
Beck (1856–1924) John J. Becker (1886–1961) Jack Beeson (1921–2010) SupplyBelcher (1751–1836) Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981) Arthur Berger (1912–2003)...
period worked exclusively with European models, while others, such as SupplyBelcher and Justin Morgan, also known as the First New England School, developed...
appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England Composer SupplyBelcher settles in Maine. Opera composer Michele Mortellari [it; ca; cs] relocates...
Beck (1856–1924) John J. Becker (1886–1961) Jack Beeson (1921–2010) SupplyBelcher (1751–1836) Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981) Arthur Berger (1912–2003)...
compiler of tune books, SupplyBelcher (1751–1836), a Maine resident, was known in his time as "the Handel of Maine". Belcher organized the first choir...
include William Billings, James Lyon, Jacob French, Andrew Law, and SupplyBelcher. In addition, Cage provides four marches for solo drums (transcribed...
frontiersman and Revolutionary War militia general (born 1755) June 9 – SupplyBelcher, composer and singer (born 1751) June 25 – Jesse Bledsoe, U.S. Senator...
redevelopment), a housing development in the area, as well as Belcher Street and Belcher Bay. Some believed that the MTR Corporation's decision to change...
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