Oliver Shaw (March 13, 1779[1] – December 31, 1848[2]), was one of the first American composers.
[4] A childhood accident and later yellow fever caused him to go totally blind.
He studied with organist John Berkenhead and later with Gottlieb Graupner.
In 1810, Shaw together with his friends founded the Psallonian Society "for the purpose of improving themselves in the knowledge and practice of sacred music and inculcating a more correct taste in the choice and performance of it"[4] based in Providence.
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