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Joseph Haydn

1732 - 1809 Person Name: F. J. Haydn Topics: Anger of God Righteous; Character Vicious; God the judge; Heart Evil, Hard, and Stubborn; Man Sinful; Nature A Type of Sinners; Retribution Threatened; The Righteous Blessed; Royalty of Christ Judgment His Prerogative; Rulers Wicked; Sin Indwelling; Sin Original; The Wicked Fate of Composer of "[O congregation, is it so]" in Bible Songs Franz Joseph Haydn (b. Rohrau, Austria, 1732; d. Vienna, Austria, 1809) Haydn's life was relatively uneventful, but his artistic legacy was truly astounding. He began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, spent some years in that city making a precarious living as a music teacher and composer, and then served as music director for the Esterhazy family from 1761 to 1790. Haydn became a most productive and widely respected composer of symphonies, chamber music, and piano sonatas. In his retirement years he took two extended tours to England, which resulted in his "London" symphonies and (because of G. F. Handel's influence) in oratorios. Haydn's church music includes six great Masses and a few original hymn tunes. Hymnal editors have also arranged hymn tunes from various themes in Haydn's music. Bert Polman

Joseph A. Seiss

1823 - 1904 Person Name: Joseph A. Seiss, 1823-1904 Topics: Jesus Christ Son of Man; Spring; Jesus Christ Lord; Jesus Christ Son of God; Jesus Christ Son of Man; Love Our Love of Christ; Nature; Praise of Jesus Christ; Spring Translator (stanza 4) of "Fairest Lord Jesus" in The Worshiping Church Joseph A. Seiss was born and raised in a Moravian home with the original family name of Seuss. After studying at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg and completing his theological education with tutors and through private study, Seiss became a Lutheran pastor in 1842. He served several Lutheran congregations in Virginia and Maryland and then became pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church (1858-1874) and the Church of the Holy Communion (1874-1904), both in Philadelphia. Known as an eloquent and popular preacher, Seiss was also a prolific author and editor of some eighty volumes, which include The Last Times (1856), The Evangelical Psalmist (1859), Ecclesia Lutherana (1868), Lectures on the Gospels (1868-1872), and Lectures on the Epistles (1885). He contributed to and compiled several hymnals. Bert Polman

Joseph Renville

1779 - 1846 Person Name: Joseph R. Renville Topics: Advent; Ascension; Children; Christmas Season; Circumcision of Jesus; Creation; Enemies; Family; God as Son of Man; Gospel; Holy Trinity; Morning; Name of Jesus; Nature; Providence; Ten Commandments 2nd Commandment (You shall not misuse the name); Trinity; Worship Author (refrain) of "Many and Great, O God" in Christian Worship Joseph R. Renville’s mother was Dakota and his father, French. An explorer, fur trader, and Congregational minister, Renville helped found the Lac qui Parle Mission in Minnesota in 1835. This song, which is also known as the “Dakota Hymn,” was sung by thirty-eight Dakota prisoners of war as they were led to execution at Mankato, Mennesota, on December 26, 1862. This song was first published in the Dakota Indian Hymnal (1916). Sing! A New Creation

Kurt John Eggert

1923 - 1993 Person Name: Kurt J. Eggert Topics: Advent; Ascension; Children; Christmas Season; Circumcision of Jesus; Creation; Enemies; Family; God as Son of Man; Gospel; Holy Trinity; Morning; Name of Jesus; Nature; Providence; Ten Commandments 2nd Commandment (You shall not misuse the name); Trinity; Worship Composer (refrain) of "[O LORD, our Lord, how glorious is your name in all the earth]" in Christian Worship A Lutheran music scholar

Richard Storrs Willis

1819 - 1900 Person Name: Richard S. Willis Topics: Jesus Christ Son of Man; Spring; Jesus Christ Lord; Jesus Christ Son of God; Jesus Christ Son of Man; Love Our Love of Christ; Nature; Praise of Jesus Christ; Spring Arranger of "CRUSADER'S HYMN" in The Worshiping Church Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, notably of hymn music. One of his hymns is "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor. Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841. Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. While there, he became a personal friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization's first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a "creditable affair, all things considered". Willis began his own journal, Once a Month: A Paper of Society, Belles-Lettres and Art, and published its first issue in January 1862. Willis died on May 7, 1900. His interment was located at Woodlawn Cemetery. His works and music compilations include: Church Chorals and Choir Studies (1850) Our Church Music (1856) Waif of Song (1876) Pen and Lute (1883) --en.wikipedia.org

Matt Papa

b. 1983 Topics: Advent; Ascension; Children; Christmas Season; Circumcision of Jesus; Creation; Enemies; Family; God as Son of Man; Gospel; Holy Trinity; Morning; Name of Jesus; Nature; Providence; Ten Commandments 2nd Commandment (You shall not misuse the name); Trinity; Worship Author of "O LORD, Our Lord, How Majestic" in Christian Worship

Accepted Widdop

1750 - 1801 Person Name: A. Widdop, c. 1790 Topics: The Godhead Creation and Providence; Providence; Nature, God revealed in ; God In Creation; Man His Life and Experiences; God Providence of Composer of "BIRSTAL" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book

J. B. Herbert

1852 - 1927 Topics: Character Good and Bad Contrasted; Christian Charity; Christians Happiness of; Death Of the Wicked; Discontent; Faith Act of; Faith Confidence of; Glory of God In Creation; Gospel Invitations of ; Man Mortal and Frail; The Meek; Nations Ultimate Subjection of; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Nature A Type of Sinners; Patience; Prayer Promises to; Prosperity No Proof of God's Blessing; Providence of God Over Saints; Resignation; Retribution Threatened; The Righteous Contrasted with Wicked; The Righteous Reward of; Safety Assured; Trust in God Exhortation to; Waiting on God; The Wicked Fate of Composer of "[For evil doers, fret thou not thyself unquietly]" in Bible Songs

Ernest R. Kroeger

1862 - 1934 Topics: Assurance Declared; Cares; Character Good and Bad Contrasted; Contentment; Death Of the Wicked; Discontent; Faith Act of; Faith Confidence of; Glory of God In Providence; Gospel Invitations of ; Heart God the Strength of; Man Mortal and Frail; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Nature Sinners Typified in; Patience; Prayer Promise to; Prosperity Without God's Blessing; Providence of God Over Saints; Resignation; Retribution Threatened; The Christian's Reward; The Righteous Contrasted with the Wicked; The Righteous Honor and Safety of; Safety Assured; Trust in God Exhortation to; The Wicked Fate of Composer of "JOSEPHINE" in The Psalter Born: August 10, 1862, St. Louis, Missouri. Died: April 7, 1934, St. Louis, Missouri. Buried: Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. Kroeger was a charter member of the American Guild of Organists; member the National Institute of Arts of Letters; conductor of the Amphion Male Chorus in St. Louis (1883-84); organist at the Unitarian Church of the Messiah, St. Louis (1886); director of the College of Music at Forest Park University (1887); president of the Music Teachers’ National Association (1896-97); president of the Missouri State Music Teachers’ Association (1897-99); instrumental adjudicator at the annual Kansas Jubilee (1900-03); master of programs in the Bureau of Music at the St. Louis World’s Fair, 1904; adjudicator at the Welsh Eisteddfod in Canton, Ohio (1906); and director of the music department at Washington University, St. Louis (1925-34). He also ran the Kroeger School of Music in St. Louis (1904-34). --www.hymntime.com/tch/ ============ Successful American composer and teacher; born at St. Louis, Mo. He began studying violin and piano when he was five years old, and received his entire musical education in this country, principally in St. Louis, where he is located at present, and holds a prominent position as a teacher, pianist and composer. He is director of the College of Music at the Forest Park University for Women and is concert pianist of the Kroeger School of Music. Was president of the Music Teachers' National Association from 1895 to 1896, and of the Missouri State Music Teachers' Association from 1897 to 1899. Is a fellow of the American Guild of Organists and was master of programs of the Bureau of Music at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904. He has written a great many different kinds of music, and is one of a very few Americans who have published fugues. Mr. Kroeger says that some of his ideas are entirely musical, while others are attempts to illustrate poems in tones, such as his symphony, a suite, and overtures on Endymion, Thanatopis, Sardanapalus and Hiawatha. He has also published a very clever group of sonnets, on various themes; Twelve Concert Studies, which Hughes says "show the influence of Chopin upon a composer who writes with a strong German accent;" an etude, Castor and Pollux; a Romanze; and other studies. A Danse Negre and Caprice Negre resemble similar works of Gottschalk; and his Dance of the Elves is dedicated to Mme. Rive-King. --grandemusica.net/musical-biographies

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven Topics: Afflictions For sin; Character Good and Bad Contrasted; Character Vicious; Christians Graces of; Christians Happiness of; Covetousness; Enemies Will be Destroyed; Faith Confession of; Faith Confidence of; Gospel Privileges of; Grace Growth in; Man Sinful; Nature An Emblem of Grace; Riches; The Righteous Contrasted with Wicked; Safety Enjoyed; Vanity Of Men and Riches; Waiting on God; The Wicked Condemned; The Wicked Fate of; The Wicked Warned Composer of "[O mighty man, why boast in sin]" in Bible Songs A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period. Bert Polman