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Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 21 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Wainwright, 1758-1825 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11326 54355 51643 Used With Text: O God, Thou art my God alone

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Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 178 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Harrison Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55435 11271 32232 Used With Text: O God, Thou Art My God Alone

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Samuel Webbe

1740 - 1816 Author of "O God, thou art my God alone" in The Choral Samuel Webbe (the elder; b. London, England, 1740; d. London, 1816) Webbe's father died soon after Samuel was born without providing financial security for the family. Thus Webbe received little education and was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker at the age of eleven. However, he was determined to study and taught himself Latin, Greek, Hebrew, French, German, and Italian while working on his apprenticeship. He also worked as a music copyist and received musical training from Carl Barbant, organist at the Bavarian Embassy. Restricted at this time in England, Roman Catholic worship was freely permitted in the foreign embassies. Because Webbe was Roman Catholic, he became organist at the Portuguese Chapel and later at the Sardinian and Spanish chapels in their respective embassies. He wrote much music for Roman Catholic services and composed hymn tunes, motets, and madrigals. Webbe is considered an outstanding composer of glees and catches, as is evident in his nine published collections of these smaller choral works. He also published A Collection of Sacred Music (c. 1790), A Collection of Masses for Small Choirs (1792), and, with his son Samuel (the younger), Antiphons in Six Books of Anthems (1818). Bert Polman