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James Carter Knox

1849 - 1930 Person Name: James C. Knox Composer of "[Christ is made the sure foundation]" in Twenty Hymns

1659 - 1695 Person Name: Henry Purcell, 1659-1695 Composer of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in With One Voice Henry Purcell (b. Westminster, London, England, 1659; d. Westminster, 1695), was perhaps the greatest English composer who ever lived, though he only lived to the age of thirty-six. Purcell's first piece was published at age eight when he was also a chorister in the Chapel Royal. When his voice changed in 1673, he was appointed assistant to John Hingston, who built chamber organs and maintained the king's instruments. In 1674 Purcell began tuning the Westminster Abbey organ and was paid to copy organ music. Given the position of composer for the violins in 1677, he also became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1679 (at age twenty) and succeeded Hingston as maintainer of the king's instruments (1683). Purcell composed music for the theater (Dido and Aeneas, c. 1689) and for keyboards, provided music for royal coronations and other ceremonies, and wrote a substantial body of church music, including eighteen full anthems and fifty-six verse anthems. Bert Polman

John Stainer

1840 - 1901 Person Name: John Stainer, Mus.Doc, 1840- Composer of "TUNE 330" in The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes

Anthony G. Petti

1932 - 1985 Person Name: Gaetano Raphael (Anthony) Petti, 1932-1985 Adapter of "Christ is made our sure foundation" in The Irish Presbyterian Hymnbook Petti, Anthony Gaetano. (London, England, February 12, 1932-- ). Roman Catholic. University College, London, B.A., 1955; M.A., 1957; D.Lit., 1970. While teaching English at the University of London (1955-1968) and the University of Calgary, Alberta (1969-?), and directing in both cities vocal and instrumental groups whose members shared his tastes, he did a great deal of research into Renaissance literature and music, particularly that produced by English Catholics, and published critical editions of many obscure and fascinating works. He reached out to a non-specialist audience with The New Catholic Hymns, for which he served as literary editor and made several translations, was published by Faber Music, London, in 1971; editions in several other countries soon followed, and his verses found their way into many other hymnbooks and breviaries. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Barry Rose

b. 1934 Person Name: Barry Rose (1934-) Composer (descant) of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Common Praise (1998)

James Gillespie

b. 1929 Person Name: James Gillespie, b. 1929 Composer (desc.) of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in The Hymnal 1982

María Eugenia Cornou

b. 1969 Person Name: María Eugenia Cornou, b. 1969 Translator (Spanish, v. 4) of "Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Cristo, firme fundamento)" in Santo, Santo, Santo

Ernest Hawkins

1802 - 1868 Person Name: Ernest Hawkins, 1802-1868 Arranger of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in With One Voice Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., son of Major Hawkins, born Jan. 25, 1802, at Hitchin, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1842). He was for sometime a Fellow of Exeter College. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of Burwash, sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Westminster. From 1838 to his death, Oct. 5, 1866, he also acted as secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Besides his prose works, which were not numerous, he published Verses in commemoration of the Third Jubilee of the S.P.G. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), 1851-2. To this little collection his hymns were contributed. The most extensively used of these, "Lord, a Saviour's love displaying" (Missions), has been adopted by many collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

W. H. Belyea

1917 - 2001 Person Name: W. Herbert Belyea Composer (descant) of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Voices United

Alberto Merubia

1919 - 2013 Person Name: Alberto Merubia, b. 1919 Translator (Spanish) of "Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation (Cristo, Firme Fundamento)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song