Henry Morton Dunham

Henry Morton Dunham (July 27, 1853 — May 4, 1929) was an American organist and composer.

Dunham was born on July 27, 1853, in Brockton, Massachusetts. He studied until 1873 at the Northeast Conservatory of Music and until 1875 at the New England Conservatory with George Whiting and John Knowles Paine. He worked as an organist at several churches in Boston, was a respected concert organist, and taught at the New England Conservatory for almost fifty years. Wallace Goodrich and Everett Truette were among his students. His compositions are influenced by classical formalism and German Romanticism, while he contributed an American viewpoint in his works and earned the respect of colleagues both in the States and abroad.

In 1904, he performed at the St. Louis Exposition.

He wrote 4 organ sonatas, a symphonic poem, 2 books of 12 church pieces each, and Aurora for orchestra and organ.

Dunham died on May 4, 1929, in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 75. He is buried at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, Connecticut.