Composers

Sidney Homer

Voice
Piano
Song
Ballad
Sacred songs
Religious music
by popularity
17 Songs2 Songs, Op.233 Scotch Poems, Op.334 Songs, Op.176 Songs from 'Underwoods', Op.156 Songs of the Old South, Op.278 Poems by Tennyson, Op.6Bandanna Ballads, Op.22Dearest, Op.24Homeland, Op.35Sheep and Lambs, Op.31Sing to Me, Sing, Op.28Song of the Shirt, Op.25There's Heaven Above, Op.21 No.2Three Songs, Op.18
Wikipedia
Sidney Homer, Sr. (9 December 1864 – 10 July 1953) was a classical composer, primarily of songs.
Homer was the youngest child born to deaf parents in Boston, Massachusetts on December 9, 1864 (some sources use 1865). He attended the 1884 class of Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, but did not attend college, although he studied composition with George Whitefield Chadwick and with Josef Rheinberger in Munich. He married contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty in 1895.
Sidney and Louise had six children, including twin daughters Anne Homer and Kathryn Homer, son Sidney Homer, Jr. (economist and author), and daughter Louise Homer.
Sidney Homer died on July 10, 1953 in Winter Park, Florida.
Sidney Homer's influence included his mentoring and supporting his nephew, the composer Samuel Barber. Scholarship on Homer was a particular focus of musicologist Harry Colin Thorpe.
Homer composed many of his songs with the voice of his famous wife in mind. Among his most famous songs are "A Banjo Song" (Weeden), "Requiem" (Stevenson), "Casey at the Bat" (Thayer), and "The House that Jack Built" ("Mother Goose.")
Homer's memoir, My Wife and I, was published by Macmillan in 1939 and reprinted by Da Capo Press in 1978.