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A. Beer

Short Name: A. 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)


TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by A. Beer (6)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
ANCHOR (Beer)A. Beer, 1874- (Composer)233432 35655 1654
EIDEA. Beer (Composer)212343 25555 17653
LANSDOWN (Beer)A. Beer (Composer)236563 43232 13567
MOUNT BEACONA. Beer (Composer)233363 21767 11123
REGNABITAlfred Beer (Composer)111216 71232 11453
TENAXA. Beer (Composer)261343 26564 32113
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