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In his later life, he was instrumental in founding the New York Normal Institute dedicated to the training of music instructors. Root continued working for Root & Cady after the war and in 1872, the University of Chicago awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Other songs composed during this time: “Just Before the Battle, Mother”, “Just After the Battle”, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp”, “On, On, On the Boys Came Marching” and “The Vacant Chair”. In 1863, he composed “The First Gun is Fired” and then in 1864 the anthem of the Civil War, “The Battle Cry of Freedom” was published.

Influenced by the Civil War, Root’s music shifted from popular standards to war songs. In 1959, he moved the family to Chicago to join his older brothers publishing company, Root & Cady. Dana (“Free As a Bird”), Frances Jane Crosby (“There’s Music in the Air”) and Rev. His first successful composition came in 1853 with “The Hazel Dell” and in 1855 another success was published with “Rosalie, The Prairie Flower.”įrom 1853-1858, Root lived in New York collaborating with other songwriters such as Mary S. Friedrich Wurzel (a German word meaning “Root”). Root began working as a songwriter for minstrel songs in 1851 under the pseudonym G. Returning to the states he began assisting Lowell Mason at Boston’s Academy of Music. That same year he met and married Mary Olive Woodman and the couple had six children, Frederick, Charles, Clara Louise, Arabella, May and Nellie.Īs a respected musician, Root toured Europe in the year 1850. In 1845, he moved to New York City where he played the organ at the Church of the Strangers and taught music at the Abbott Institute for Young Ladies. George Frederick Root was born on Augin Sheffield, Massachusetts.Īs a young boy growing up in Boston, Root was trained on the piano by George J.
