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Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters. Ward was founder and first director of the Orpheus Club of Newark, where he died on September 28, 1903. He is buried in Newark‘s Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Ward was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.

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  • صموئيل أ. وارد (بالإنجليزية: Samuel A. Ward)‏ هو ملحن أمريكي، ولد في 28 ديسمبر 1847 في نيوآرك في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي بنفس المكان في 28 سبتمبر 1903. (ar)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (* 28. Dezember 1847 in Newark, New Jersey; † 28. September 1903 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Organist und Komponist. (de)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters. He is remembered for the 1882 tune "Materna", which he intended as a setting for the hymn "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem". This was published ten years later, in 1892. In 1903, after Ward had died, the tune was first combined by a publisher with the Katharine Lee Bates poem "America", itself first published in 1895, to create the patriotic song "America the Beautiful." The first book with the combination was published in 1910. Ward never met Bates. Ward was founder and first director of the Orpheus Club of Newark, where he died on September 28, 1903. He is buried in Newark‘s Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Ward was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. (en)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (Newark, 28 december 1847 – Newark, 28 september 1903) was een Amerikaans organist en componist. Ward studeerde muziek in New York en werd organist aan de Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. Bekend werd hij als componist vooral door zijn hymne Materna uit 1882, die later met woorden van en onder de titel America the Beautiful als patriottisch anthem op 4 juli 1895 in het wekelijks magazine "The Congregationalist" gepubliceerd werd. Samuel A. Ward was de laatste in de ononderbroken linie van Samuel Wards, beginnend met de Gouverneur van Rhode Island als afgevaardigde in het "Continental Congress" . Samuel A. Ward had geen kinderen. Hij werd in de Amerikaanse "Songwriters' Hall of Fame" opgenomen in 1970. (nl)
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  • صموئيل أ. وارد (بالإنجليزية: Samuel A. Ward)‏ هو ملحن أمريكي، ولد في 28 ديسمبر 1847 في نيوآرك في الولايات المتحدة، وتوفي بنفس المكان في 28 سبتمبر 1903. (ar)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (* 28. Dezember 1847 in Newark, New Jersey; † 28. September 1903 ebenda) war ein amerikanischer Organist und Komponist. (de)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (December 28, 1848 – September 28, 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of a shoemaker, he studied under several teachers in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in his home town in 1880. He married Virginia Ward in 1871, with whom he had four daughters. Ward was founder and first director of the Orpheus Club of Newark, where he died on September 28, 1903. He is buried in Newark‘s Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Ward was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. (en)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (Newark, 28 december 1847 – Newark, 28 september 1903) was een Amerikaans organist en componist. Ward studeerde muziek in New York en werd organist aan de Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. Bekend werd hij als componist vooral door zijn hymne Materna uit 1882, die later met woorden van en onder de titel America the Beautiful als patriottisch anthem op 4 juli 1895 in het wekelijks magazine "The Congregationalist" gepubliceerd werd. (nl)
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  • صموئيل أ. وارد (ar)
  • Samuel A. Ward (de)
  • Samuel Augustus Ward (nl)
  • Samuel A. Ward (en)
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