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J. Arnoud

Composer of "[A la guerra Dios nos llama]" in Coleccion de Cantos Sagrados Populares

Alynne Arde

Person Name: Rev. Alynne Arde Composer of "[A little while longer I'll wait here below]" in Songs of Summerland

Mrs. F. D. Archibald

Composer of "[A man of honest thought]" in Songs of Redemption

E. P. Archbold

Author of "The winds that career o'er the bosom of ocean" in The Praise Hymnary

1883 - 1935 Author of "Again We Shall Gather" in Songs of Light Arnold, Eberhard. (Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany, July 1883-November 22, 1935, Darmstadt, Hesse). His ancestors had left England in the early seventeenth century for religious reasons and were among the earliest settlers of Connecticut. Eberhard's father, Carl Franklin Arnold, had come to Germany from Ohio for his education and had settled there. He held the chair of Church history at the University of Breslau, Silesia. At the age of sixteen, Eberhard Arnold experienced a decisive turning point in his life and from that time on his driving motive was to take Jesus' demands totally and seriously and to truly continue the life of the first church as described in the Acts of the Apostles. As a university student at Halle, he was active in the Student Christian Youth Movement, also holding scripture classes among the students. He broke with the state church after his marriage to Emmy von Hollander in 1909 and worked as a free-lance writer and lecturer. In 1916, he because literary director of the Furche Press in Berlin, and also edited its monthly magazine Die Furche for a time. In 1920, with a small group of convinced Christians, Eberhard and his wife felt called to start the Bruderhof (now known as the Hutterian Society of Brothers) at Sannerz, near Frankfurt-am-Main. His last fifteen years were spent in active communal life, which also included writing, speaking, and traveling to further the brotherly life. During his lifetime he wrote many poems, fifty-five of which have been set to music and published in Songs of Light. --Marlys Swinger, DNAH Archives

Abraham Arpellet

Author of "Agneau de Dieu (O Lamb of God)" in Voices Together

Edwin Arnold

Person Name: Sir Edwin Arnold Author of "The Sunrise Comes" in Young Buddhist Companion. 4th printing

J. G. Archer

Composer of "[All hail the pow'r of Jesus' name]" in Songs of Rejoicing

Edward J. Armstrong

Person Name: Edw. J. Armstrong Author of "O the Debt of Love" in The Christian Sunday School Hymnal

Jacob Arcadelt

1505 - 1568 Person Name: Jacques Arcadelt, c.1514-1560 Composer (attributed to) of "ARCADELT" in The Book of Praise Jacob Arcadelt born in the Netherlands towards the end of the 15th century, died in Paris. The story that he was a pupil of Joaquin Deprès is probably untrue. In 1540 he was admitted into the Pontifical Choir at Rome, and in 1555 (?) entered the service of Cardinal Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, whom he followed to Paris. Arcadelt was on of the many Flemish composers who migrated to Italy; he helped to found the "great" Roman school, and was one of Palestrina's most distinguished forerunners. he united French delicacy of sentiment, Flemish mastery of musical form, and Italian culture in quite an exceptional way, and was at once one of the most important and prolific composers of his day. Together with Willaert and Verdelot, he was one of the founders of the madrigal. His first book of 53 madrigals (Venice, 1538) reached it sixteenth edition in 1617, and was followed by five other books. If in his church compositions Arcadelt's style is of almost heroic grandeur, and shows the most complete mastery over all the intricacies of counterpoint (albeit he seems to have despised the then popular "Netherlandish tricks"), in his Italian madrigals we discover perhaps the first dawn of the sentimental element in music. His French chansons, on the other hand, are perfect little cabinet-pieces of contrapuntal elaborateness. Notwithstanding the glorious musical epoch which followed close upon his death. Arcadelt's works were long looked upon with the greatest veneration' Frecobaldi wrote an organ piece on a them "del Signore Arcadelt," and even Liszt wrote a pianofote piece on an Ave Maria of his. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)