Joseph Gould (28 January 1833 in Penn Yan, New York – 27 March 1913 in Montreal, Quebec) was an American-born Canadian businessman, choir director, editor and composer.
[2] In addition Gould founded the semi-monthly Arcadia, a Journal devoted exclusively to Music, Art, and Literature, between May 1892 – March 1893, which was notable at this period for its cosmopolitan coverage.
Three choral works, "Out of the Depths", "Ave Verum" and "Panis Angelicus", have been reprinted by the Canadian Museum of History; other manuscripts are held at the National Library of Canada and at McGill University.
[5] His setting of the words of "Laus Deo" by Mary Baker Eddy was sung at the dedication of The First Church of Christ, Scientist in 1895.
[6] Some of his part-songs were based on nursery rhymes, of which the score for "Little Tommy Tucker" is held at the Library of Congress[7] and two others, "Jack and Jill" and "Georgie Porgie", were recorded with other Victorian material in 2012.