Edward M. Zimmerman

He is best remembered as a composer of hymns, and for co-writing the suffragist anthem "Votes for Women: Suffrage Rallying Song" (1915) with his wife and frequent singing partner, the soprano Marie Kunkel Zimmerman.

[6] In February 1886 he was a guest soloist in a benefit concert given to raise funds for the Delaware Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

[8] By 1886 Zimmerman had moved to Philadelphia where he was a member of the Mendelssohn Male Quartet (MMQ),[9] a professional vocal chamber group established from within the Chautauqua movement.

[2] In 1887 Zimmerman was the bass soloist in Jackson of Exeter's cantata The Year presented by the Vesper Choral Society of Philadelphia at Musical Fund Hall under conductor and composer H. H.

[13] In May 1887 he sang the role of Ahasuerus, King of Persia, in William Batchelder Bradbury's cantata Esther, the Beautiful Queen in performances given first at Saint Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church;[14] later being presented in a two-week engagement at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington.

[26] The following April they were the bass and soprano soloists in Joseph Haydn's The Creation at Philadelphia's Association Hall,[27] a work they repeated at that same theatre in May 1898.

[28] In October 1898 the couple were part of the soloist quartet in the Philadelphia premiere of Liza Lehmann's song-cycle In a Persian garden at Witherspoon Hall.

[33] His choral works "Jubilate" and "Nunc Dimmitis" were performed in a concert sponsored by the Manuscript Music Society in March 1895.