Uri Keeler Hill (10 December 1780 – 9 November 1844) was a

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composer. In 1805, Uri Hill became the organist for the

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. He moved to New York to continue his music career in 1810 and premiered an "Ode" in 1814. In 1836, Uri Keller traveled to Europe to study with

Ludwig Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conducting, conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten Sy ...

.A Chronicle of American Music 1700-1995
Charles J. Hall, Schirmer Reference (September 1996) Hill's son,

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, was the founding director of the

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Publications

*''The Vermont Harmony'' (1801) *''A Number of Original Airs, Duetto’s and Trio’s'' (1803) *''The Sacred Minstrel'' (1806) *''The Handelian Repository'' (1814) *''Solfegio Americano'' (1820)

References

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