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| Short Name: | Alfred Beer |
| Full Name: | Beer, A, (Alfred), 1874-1963 |
| Birth Year: | 1874 |
| Death Year: | 1963 |
Alfred Beer was born in Great Barr, Birmingham (England), in 1874. He studied piano and was the son of a Methodist minister. One of his headmasters encouraged him to compose tunes to Methodist hymns, five of these appear in the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book
Dianne Shapiro from Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland bu Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (Mansell, London: 1997)
Tunes by Alfred Beer (6) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANCHOR (Beer) | A. Beer, 1874- (Composer) | 3 | 33432 35655 16545 |
| EIDE | A. Beer (Composer) | 2 | 12343 25555 17653 |
| LANSDOWN (Beer) | A. Beer (Composer) | 2 | 36563 43232 13567 |
| MOUNT BEACON | A. Beer (Composer) | 2 | 33363 21767 11123 |
| REGNABIT | Alfred Beer (Composer) | 1 | 11216 71232 11453 |
| TENAX | A. Beer (Composer) | 2 | 61343 26564 32113 |
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