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Thomas B. Southgate

1814 - 1868 Person Name: T. B. Southgate Composer of "[Come, O Sabbath day, and bring]" in The Service Hymnal with an introductory service Southgate, Thomas Bishop, born at Hornsey, Middlesex, June 8, 1814; educated in the school of the Chapel Royal, where he was a chorister; studied harmony under Thomas Attwood and Sir John Goss, and the organ under Samuel Wesley; organist of Hornsey Church from 1834 to 1853, and of St Anne's, Highgate Rise, London, from the latter year until his death, which occured at Highgate, November 3, 1868. EVENSONG, No. 320 F.C.H., was published in sheet form in 1858, set to the words "God that madest earth and heaven." --James Love, Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources (1891)

Abraham Wolf Binder

1895 - 1966 Person Name: A. W. Binder Composer of "[Come, O Sabbath day, and bring]" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged.

Gustav Gottheil

1827 - 1903 Author of "Come, O Sabbath Day" in Union Hymnal, Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship. 3rd ed. Revised and enlarged.

Gideon Froelich

Composer of "THOU SHALT REST" in AGO Founders Hymnal Apparently the husband of hymn-writer Mrs. Marion or Marian Froelich, Prof. Gideon Froelich was organist both of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church and of Ahawath Chesed Synagogue, both in New York City. The rabbi of the synagogue, Isaac S. Moses, in the preface to the seventh edition of his The Sabbath-School Hymnal (New York: The Bloch Publishing Co., 1906), thanked Mrs. Marion Froelich for her help with English translations of German verse, and wrote:Prof. Gideon Froelich, whose genius has enriched this book with its finest melodies; no words are adequate to express the editor's gratitude and appreciation. For many years the organist of the above mentioned congregation, he has caught the spirit of Jewish melody, and the character of Jewish worship. His greater reward he will find in the joy which his compositions will produce in the hearts of thousands of Jewish children and in the gratitude of many worshipers in the Synagogue and the home.(source: AGO Founders Hymnal, p.96) ============== 19th Century Froelich, whose name is sometimes given with the title "Professor," was organist and choirmaster of the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and organist at the Ahawath Chesed Synagogue, both in New York City. He also helped found of the American Guild of Organists. www.hymntime.com/tch/