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BUCK, DUDLEY (1839-1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 720 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCK, See also:DUDLEY (1839-1909) , See also:American musical composer, was See also:born in See also:Hartford, See also:Connecticut, on the loth of See also:March 1839, the son of a See also:merchant who gave him every opportunity for cultivating his musical talents; and for four years (1858–862) hestudied at See also:Leipzig, See also:Dresden and See also:Paris. On returning to See also:America he held the position of organist at Hartford, See also:Chicago (1869), and See also:Boston (1871). In 1875 he went to New See also:York to assist See also:Theodore See also:Thomas as conductor of the orchestral concerts, and from 1897 to 1903 was organist at See also:Holy Trinity See also:church: Meanwhile he had become well known as a composer of church See also:music, a number of cantatas (See also:Columbus, 1876; See also:Golden See also:Legend,.r88o; See also:Light of See also:Asia, 1885, &c), a See also:grand See also:opera, See also:Serapis, a comic opera, Deseret (188o), a symphonic See also:overture, Marmion, a See also:symphony in E See also:flat, and other orchestral and vocal See also:works. He died on the 6th of See also:October 1909.

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