After stu­dy­ing mu­sic un­der Sam­u­el Ar­nold & Charles Wes­ley II, Carr em­i­grat­ed to Amer­i­ca in 1794, set­ting up mu­sic pub­lish­ing bus­i­ness­es in Phil­a­del­phia and New York Ci­ty. His 1794 Fed­er­al Over­ture marked the first Amer­i­can print­ing of Yan­kee Doo­dle and Hail Co­lum­bia. His 1796 The Arch­ers, or the Moun­tain­eers of Switz­er­land, based on the sto­ry of Swiss na­tion­al he­ro Will­iam Tell, is one of the first Amer­i­can operas of which piec­es still sur­vive. He al­so ran Carr’s Mu­sic­al Re­pos­i­tory, thought to be the first mu­sic store in Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. Carr served as or­gan­ist at St. Pe­ter’s Epis­co­pal Church in Phil­a­del­phia, and, be­gin­ning in 1801, as mu­sic di­rect­or at St. Jo­seph’s Ca­tho­lic Church in Phil­a­del­phia. His works in­clude:

• Masses, Vespers, Li­ta­nies, Hymns, Psalms, An­thems & Mo­tets, 1805
• Collection of Chants and Tunes for the Use of the Epis­co­pal Church in the Ci­ty of Phil­a­del­phia

• Haeussler, pp. 587-88
• Hughes, pp. 339-40
• Reynolds, pp. 262-63

1. Madrid (Carr)
   • Spanish Hymn