“To all musical practitioners. Perhaps you may be ready to think that I am in a great measure unacquainted with the true proportion of sound; I am not ashamed to own that I am.”

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...