Background
Homer, Sidney was born on December 9, 1864 in Boston. Son of George and Anna Maria (Swift) Homer.
Homer, Sidney was born on December 9, 1864 in Boston. Son of George and Anna Maria (Swift) Homer.
Boston Latin School, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. First music studies with George West. Chadwick. Spent 5 years in Germany, studied 3 years at Royal Conservatory of Munich under Joseph Rheinberger: Doctor Music (honorary), Rollins College, 1939.
Curtis Institute Music, 1943.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts on December 9, 1864 (some sources use 1865), he was the youngest child of deaf parents. Sidney Homer died on July 10, 1953 in Winter Park, Florida. Scholarship on Homer was a particular focus of musicologist Harry Colin Thorpe.
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").
Member Associate of Science C.A.P.
Married Louise Dilworth Beatty, January 9, 1895 (deceased. Children: Louise (Mistress Ernes t V. Stires), Sidney, Katharine (Mistress Douglas Fryer), Anne Marie (Mistress William M. Doerflinger) Hester Makepeace (Mistress Robert East. Henry, Junior.