Hans Gram (composer)

Hans Gram (1754-1804) was a Danish composer and musician who emigrated to the United States in the early 1780s. In Boston, Massachusetts, he served as organist of the Brattle Street Church, and as a music teacher. He lived in Charlestown; and in Boston on Belknap's Lane and Common Street. His music "was performed at the funeral of John Hancock." He died in Boston in 1804. In 1810 a "Hans Gram Musical Society" formed in Fryeburg, Maine.

Works

 * Death Song of a Cherokee Indian. 1791
 * (Compositions published in Massachusetts Magazine, ca.1791)
 * Sacred Lines, for Thanksgiving Day
 * Bind Kings with Chains, an anthem for Easter Sunday
 * (Compiled and edited by Hans Gram, Samuel Holyoke and Oliver Holden).
 * Hymn to Sleep. (Gram translated lyrics from German and added his verses)