Bradbury, William Batchelder

Bradbury, William Batchelder a composer of sacred music, was born at York, Me., in 1816. He spent two years in Europe studying music and collecting a large and rare library of musical works. He edited the New York Musical Review, and contributed to various journals. He died Jan. 7, 1868. Mr. Bradbury published various juvenile singing-books for Sunday-schools and day-schools, and various collections of sacred music, among which are the Psalmodist, Choralist, Mendelssohn Collection, The Shawm (N. Y. 1854), and many others.