The New International Encyclopædia/Tuckerman, Samuel Parkman

TUCKERMAN, Samuel Parkman (1819-90). An American organist, church composer, and musical lecturer. He studied the organ in Boston under Zeuner and became organist and choirmaster of Saint Paul's Church of that city in 1840. Nine years later he went to England and studied cathedral and church music generally, and at the same time lectured on musical subjects. He returned to Boston and took up church work and lectured on early cathedral and church music. His compositions are principally services, hymns, and anthems for the Episcopal Church service. He also edited collections: The Episcopal Harp; National Lyre; Cathedral Chants (1858); Trinity Collection of Church Music (1864).