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George Frederick Root (August 30, 1820 – August 6, 1895) was a romantic American composer, who found particular fame during the American Civil War, with songs such as "Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!" and "The Battle Cry of Freedom". He is regarded as the first American to compose a secular cantata.
Pioneer music educator, famed Civil War composer. George F. Root. Inductee. 1820- 1895 Born/Died. 1970 Inducted. Wrote "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" George Frederick Root was born on August 30, 1820 in Sheffield, Massachusetts. As a young boy growing up in Boston, Root was trained on the piano by George J. Webb.
George (Jorge) Frederick Root nació el 30 de agosto de 1820 en Sheffield, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos. George nació para la música. Era evidente que desde muy pequeño tenía ese don, el cual desarrolló más adelante con entusiasmo. George F. Root.
Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895. Birth Year: 1820. Death Year: 1895. Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878.
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7 de abr. de 2021 · George Frederick Root, aka G. Friedrich Wurzel, was born in Sheffield, MA on 30 August 1820, and died, at the age of 74, on Bailey's Island, ME on 6 August 1895. He published over 500 pieces of music from 1848 until 1896. He used his German surname Wurzel, the English equivalent of Root, for his minstrel songs.
George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. By Polly H. Carder. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2013. Juanita Karpf* Article. Metrics. Article contents. Get access. Share. Cite Rights & Permissions. Abstract.
Biography. American composer and music educator George Frederick Root (1820-1895) was born in rural Massachusetts. An accomplished keyboardist, Root began his studies in 1841 with Lowell Mason, the founder of curricular music in American public schools, at Mason's Boston Academy of Music.
