Hamma, B. (Benjamin), 1831-

Life

Born: 10/10/1831, Dreisslingen, Germany

Died: June 2, 1911 Friedlingen an der Donau, (or Stuttgart) Germany

Biography Brother of Fridolin and Franz Hamma, pupil at Stuttgart of the court chapelmaster Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner (1791–1856); then lived in Paris and Rome. In 1858 he went to Königsberg where he directed concert and singing societies in Koenigsberg until about 1871, when he went to Stuttgart, and became director of the Neue Musikschule. .In 1888 he went with his family to the United States. There he became music director of Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Pitt Street, New York City, in Little Germany. While there, many of his sacred works were published by J, Fischer and Bro. and by Oliver Ditson. In 1904 he returned to Stuttgart, leaving his children behind. (His wife had apparently died earlier) He composed the opera, Zarrisco, many songs and part songs, and pianoforte pieces.

List of sacred works

• Adoro te devote, SATB org Boston, Schmidt MS
• Ave Maria und Salve Regina, Op. 31, SATB, Breslau: Hientzsch, 1871
• Ave Maria, SATB? OD 1897
• Ave Maria, SATB org. Boston: Schmidt MS
• Ave maris stella SATB org, Boston, Schmidt MS
• Ave verum corpus SATB org. Boston: Schmidt MS
• Bone pastor, SATB, OD 1897
• Ecce panis angelorum,S solo, SATB org Boston, Schmidt, 1898 MS
• Laetentur coeli, SATB, 1897
• 20 hymns, SA org Ms LC.
• Mass in honor of St. Dominic : for unison or two part chorus JFB 1899
• Mass in honor of St. Francis SATB org/orch Ms LC
• Mass in honor of St. George, TTBB, JFB 1907
• Mass in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, JFB 1892
• Mass in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus : for soprano, alto, (tenor and bass ad lib.) JFB 1909
• Mass in honor of the most holy trinity, SATB orch/or, MS LC
• Missa a capella,op. 12, male voices. Eichstätt: Stillkrauth, 1883
• Missa pro Defunctis (1894), for mixed choir and organ or orchestra. MS LC
• Missa tertia, SATB (org) Eichstätt: Krüll, 1877
• O salutaris Hostia, SB solo and chorus, org Boston, Schmidt, 1898 MS
• O salutaris Histia, Boston, Schmidt
• O Virgo virginum, SATB org Boston, Schmidt, 1898 MS
• Pange lingua, SATB, OD 1897

External links

http://www.avemariasongs.org/wiki/index.php/Benjamin_Hamma

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