Stephen A. Emery

[1] Emery early manifested a strong love for music, and he even composed some little pieces before he was able to read notes, an elder sister showing him how to write them.

After a common school education, he entered upon a collegiate course at Colby University in the fall of 1859, but owing to ill-health and impaired sight, he was compelled to leave after the freshman year.

Acting upon the advice of his teacher, Emery went to Leipzig in 1862, and there for two years, he studied with Richter, Papperitz, Plaidy and Haupt.

35 (written for his own children), was a remarkably simple and easy course for beginners, while his Elements of Harmony was used throughout the U.S.[1] Emery lectured and composed a considerable quantity of music, both vocal and instrumental.

[3] His students included: Horatio Parker,[4] Arthur Foote,[5] Henry Kimball Hadley, Ethelbert Nevin,[2] Nellie Moyer Budd,[6] and Cora S. Briggs.