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Walter Cecil Macfarren
1826 - 1905 Person Name: Walter Macfarren Composer of "[While the sun is shining]" in The Calvary Hymnal Walter Cecil Macfarren, b. London, 1826
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
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Born: August 28, 1826, Westminster, London, England.
Died: September 2, 1905, at home in St. Pancras, London, England.
Buried: St. Pancras Cemetery, East Finchley, London, England.
Brother of George Macfarren, Walter served as a chorister in Westminster Abbey (1836-41). He entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1842 and was a professor of piano there (1846-1903). He composed pieces for piano, voice and piano, and vocal ensemble, and for many years was a music critic for The Queen.
Sources:
Frost, p. 681
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/c/macfarren_wc.htm
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Walter Cecil Macfarren
William Pitts
1829 - 1903 Composer of "PRINCETHORPE" in Worship and Song William Pitts was organist of the Brompton Oratory. The tune PRINCETHORPE was first printed in Oratory Hymn Tunes, 1871. For fifty years organist of Brompton Oratory. Mr. Pitts was the composer of the fine hymn-tune named ‘Princethorpe' in 'Church Hymns' and other collections.
From The Musical Times, Vol. 44, No. 725 (Jul. 1, 1903), pp. 474-475.
William Pitts
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