Issachar Bates

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Issachar Bates (1758-1837) was the most prominent composer of music for the Shakers,[1] best-known for "Come Life, Shaker Life", which he wrote in 1835.[2]

Bates was born in Hingham, Massachusetts, and moved to the Shaker community in Watervliet in 1803.[3]

[edit] Reference

  • Priscilla J. Brewer (1988). Shaker Communities, Shaker Lives. UPNE. ISBN 0874514002. 
  • Chase, Gilbert (2000). America's Music: From the Pilgrims to the Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-00454-X. 

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Chase, pg. 210
  2. ^ American Music Preservation
  3. ^ Brewer, pg. 32
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