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Henry Lahee

Short Name: Henry Lahee
Full Name: Lahee, Henry, 1826-1912
Birth Year: 1826
Death Year: 1912

Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.

Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:

Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes

Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460

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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Henry Lahee (11)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
ALL SAINTS (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)113517 13212 31432
HOLY TRINITY (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)233432 23211 11433
MAGI (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)251171 54322 13667
NATIVITY (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)13133355 11321 66217
[Chant] (Lahee 51332)Lahee (Composer)151332 62117 1
PIETAS (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)135435 17765 36543
SACRIFICE (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)1034321 17123 443
ST. SERF (Lahee)H. Lahee (Composer)2353311 22561 11233
[They're gathering homeward from every land] (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)133532 11111 51233
WILD BELLSHenry Lahee (Composer)911176 54321 17654
WIMBLETON (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)856511 77321 77666
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