orn at Portland, Me., Jan. 9, 1839. He studied the piano, organ, and
composition with Kotzschmar in that city, and made his first public
appearance as an organist, June 25, 1857. During the following year he
went to Germany and studied the organ, composition, and instrumentation
with Haupt and other masters in Berlin. He returned to this country in
1861 and gave several concerts, in which he played many of the organ
works of the best writers for the first time in the United States.
Shortly after his return he was appointed instructor of music in Harvard
University, and in 1876 was honored with the elevation to a professorship
and given a regular chair. He is best known as a composer, and several of
his works have been paid the rare compliment of performance in Germany,
among them his Mass in D and all his symphonies. The former was given at
the Berlin Singakademie in 1867, under his own direction. Among his
principal compositions are the oratorio "St. Peter;" the Mass in D; the
Centennial Hymn, set to Whittier's poem and sung at the opening of the
Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition; the overture to "As You Like It;"
"The Tempest," in the style of a symphonic poem; the symphony in C minor
and "Spring" symphony; besides numerous sonatas, fantasies, preludes,
songs, and arrangements for organ and piano. His larger orchestral works
have been made familiar to American audiences by Mr. Theodore Thomas's
band, and have invariably met with success. His style of composition is
large, broad, and dignified, based upon the best classic models, and
evinces a high degree of musical scholarship.

St. Peter.

"St. Peter," Mr. Paine's only oratorio,--and from the highest standpoint
it may be said the only oratorio yet produced in this country,--was
written in 1872-73, and first performed at Portland, Me., in June of the
latter year, under the composer's own direction. The solos were sung by
Mrs. Wetherbee, Miss Adelaide Phillipps, Mr. George L. Osgood, and Mr.
Rudolphsen. It was again produced with great success at the third
Triennial Festival of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, May 9, 1874,
with Mrs. J. Houston West, Mr. Nelson Varley, Miss Phillipps, and Mr.
Rudolphsen in the principal parts.

The establishment of Christianity, illustrated by the four principal
scenes in the life of St. Peter, forms the subject of the oratorio. It is
divided into two parts, and these are subdivided as follow