James Cutler Dunn Parker
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James Cutler Dunn Parker (June 2, 1828, Boston – November 27, 1916, Brookline, Massachusetts) was an American composer.
After graduating from Harvard Law School, Parker went to the Leipzig Conservatory in 1851, where he studied piano with Ignaz Moscheles and Louis Plaidy, and composition with Julius Rietz and Ernst Richter. From 1867 to 1897, he served as organist at the Trinity Church, Boston. He also played the organ for the concerts of the Handel and Haydn Society. He taught at the New England Conservatory from 1871 to 1897.
Parker composed hymns, cantatas, oratorios, church music, and works for piano. In addition, he wrote two sets of pedagogical pieces and translated Richter's Harmonielehre (Manual of Harmony) into English.
