“After all, I must be candid enough to own, that I have not the vanity to think I have done any more than to lay a foundation for a grand superstructure.”

About William Billings

Composer • American

William Billings was a pioneering American choral composer and hymnodist, widely regarded as the father of American church music. Self-taught, he rose from humble beginnings as a tanner in Boston to become a leading...