JOYFUL PILGRIM

JOYFUL PILGRIM

Composer: Nils Frykman
Published in 3 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF
Audio files: Recording

Composer: Nils Frykman

Born: October 20, 1842, Sunne, Värmland, Sweden (birth name: Nils Larsson). Died: March 30, 1911, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Buried: Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Nils took the name Frykman after the region where he grew up, Fryksdalen. In 1868, he graduated from teachers’ college in Karlstad, and went on to teach in Grums, Norrköping, and Sunne. He preached in the church in Sunne, and around that time began to write hymns. Eventually, his texts were printed in the magazine Sanningsvittnet. However, Frykman’s work was not sanctioned by Sweden’s state church, and almost led to the loss of his job as a teacher. Eventually he did resign his position over a controversy about his children’s baptism by an independent prea… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: JOYFUL PILGRIM
Composer: Nils Frykman
Meter: 13.13.13.8
Incipit: 51113 54322 21772
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)
Audio

Small Church Music #5349

The Covenant Hymnal #498

Include 1 pre-1979 instance
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