English name: John pond way,
Translation name: j·P· Oatway, John P. Oatway.
Date of birth: 1824 August 1.
And so on: 65438+April 27th 0880.
Place of birth: Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Representative work: "Twinkling stars are laughing love"
Dream of home and mother
John Pond Ordway was a famous American composer, music entrepreneur and educator in the19th century. 65438+In the late 1940s, he and his father Aaron Oatway founded a music store in Boston. Twinkling Stars Laughing at Love is his masterpiece written in 1855, but it is more famous for Dreaming of Home and Mother written in 185 1 As a sad song during the American Civil War, this song spread in the north and south of the United States, and it is also a Japanese version of "Sorrow of Travel". 1845, he formed the band "Oatway Aeolians of Odway", in which a white actor painted his face and played the role of a black man, and the music was also written in the style of black songs. Dream of Home and Mother is one of the representative works.
Patrick Gilmore, a famous American musician, worked in a video store in Orwitt and was the leader of the band "Ionians in Oatway". His most famous lyrics are an anti-war song "When Johnny Walks Home" adapted from an Irish song, but his creative version is not as cheerful as the tune of the song.
In addition, the first song "Back to California" by the famous American musician James Lord Pierpont was written for the band "Ionians in Oatway". Since then, he has composed many songs for Orwitt, the most famous of which is Jingle Bells.
After the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War, Oatway took care of the wounded soldiers as a surgeon.
He also served as a school director in Harley Middle School from 1859 to 1873, and served in the Massachusetts court from 1868. He opposed corporal punishment of students and set up a fund for the state legislature.
Oatway also established the Massachusetts Fishing and Hunting Association, the predecessor of the Massachusetts Fisheries Association.
Oatway died in Boston on April 27th, 1980, at the age of 56.