Francis Boott (composer)

Francis Boott (June 24, 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts – March 1, 1904 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) and at Round Hill School, followed by Harvard College from which he graduated in 1831. and continued to compose music. He died on 1 March 1904 at the age of 90 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Boott bequeathed $10,000 to Harvard University as a prize fund for the best 4-part vocal work written by a Harvard student. Music Boott’s first six songs appeared in 1846 under the pen name of Telford; Upton described them as “quite undistinguished”. In 1857 eight songs were published, followed by many individual songs in the following years. Boott composed at least 140 songs during his long life, as well as a handful of duets, choral works, part-songs, and instrumental works. He also composed hymns for church services, many of which were included in the hymnal for King’s Chapel in Boston. his choices of texts were sophisticated, embracing the literary world of his time. In 1857 John Sullivan Dwight wrote that his songs are “not strikingly original, but graceful and facile, much to be preferred to the popular sweetish, sentimental type”. Musical compositions Songs for voice and piano : under the pse