Sidney Homer (09/12/1864 - 10/07/1953), an American composer, from Boston. He was acknowledged as one of America's foremost song composers, whose works were familiar to all the prominent concert singers of the period. The prolific composer who created over one hundred songs earned royalties of $13,577.14 in a five month period in 1914-1915--a considerable sum which indicates the pervasiveness and popularity of his music at the height of his fame. And yet in the years following his death, despite the efforts of his nephew, Samuel Barber, to issue compilations of his best work, the tireless attempts of his daughter Kathryn Homer Fryer to urge Schirmer to reprint works long out-of-print, and the championing of a few committed recitalists, Homer's songs have fallen into neglect and are eminently ripe for revival.