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Plimpton, Joblocked

Plimpton, Joblocked

  • Richard Crawford

(b Medway, MA, Feb 27, 1784; d Brookline, MA, 1864). American composer, compiler, teacher, and organ builder. He worked from 1806 to 1820 as a music teacher in New York City, though he spent some time in Albany in 1819. In September 1820 he performed at Boston’s Columbian Museum on the Apollino, a panharmonicon that he claimed to have invented (announced in The Euterpeiad, i/23 (1820), 91). He later built reed organs and in 1836 exhibited an eight-stop instrument of his own design at Boston’s Mechanic’s Fair. He compiled The Washington Choir (Boston, 1843), a collection of temperance music that identifies him on its title-page as “pupil of Dr. G.K. Jackson,” who was active in New York between 1802 and 1812. Plimpton’s few surviving compositions include eight marches, an air, a waltz, and a minuet in The Universal Repository of Music (a collection now in the New York Public Library, which he copyrighted on 10 December 1808 but apparently never published), Behold the Lovely Vernal Rose, a song for voice and keyboard (New York, 1816), and a few songs in The Washington Choir.

Bibliography

  • R.J. Wolfe: Secular Music in America, 1801–1825: a Bibliography (New York, 1964)
  • B. Owen: The Organ in New England (Raleigh, 1979), 410