Samuel A. Ward

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

United States

Active from

1847

Active to

1903

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

3,676

Total plays

11,959

Samuel Augustus Ward (28 December 1847 – 28 September 1903) was an American organist and composer. Born in Newark, New Jersey, Ward studied music in New York and became an organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark in 1880. He is remembered for his hymn "Materna" (1882) which was used for the anthem "America the Beautiful", with words by Katharine Lee Bates. However, Ward never met Bates, and he died in 1903 in Newark. He was the last in an unbroken <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Samuel+A

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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   · 2011 · cited 23,192x

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   · 2019 · cited 20,879x

3. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,721x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,786x

5. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,964x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Augustus

Family name

Ward

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Newark

Place of death

Newark

Occupation

composer

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

America the Beautiful

Instrument

organ

Image

Samuel Augustus Ward.jpg

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