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Timothy Rees

1874 - 1939 Person Name: Timothy Rees, 1874-1939 Scripture: John 15:26-27, 16:1-15 Author of "Holy Spirit, Ever Dwelling" in Common Praise (1998)

Rosemary Fishburn

1928 - 2002 Person Name: Rosemary Fishburn, 1928-2002 Scripture: John 16:12-14 Translator (Spanish) of "We Limit Not the Truth of God" in Community of Christ Sings

F. Augé-Daullé

1875 - 1972 Person Name: F. Augé-Daullé, 1875-1972 Scripture: John 16:12-14 Translator (French) of "We Limit Not the Truth of God" in Community of Christ Sings

1855 - 1932 Person Name: Julius Röntgen, 1855-1933 Scripture: John 15:26-27, 16:1-15 Arranger of "IN BABILONE" in Common Praise (1998) An important Dutch pianist, composer, conductor, scholar, and editor, Julius Rontgen (b. Leipzig, Germany, 1855; d. Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1932) studied music in Leipzig with well-known German teachers. In 1877 he moved to Amsterdam, where he first taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 1886 he became conductor of the Society for the Advancement of Musical Art. He returned to the Conservatory as director in 1918, and then retired in 1924 to devote himself to composition. He was a friend of leading composers of his day, including Liszt, Brahms, and Grieg, and wrote a biography of Grieg. Rontgen's compositions include symphonies, chamber works, operas, and film scores. Bert Polman

Edward Elgar

Person Name: Edward Elgar, 1857-1934 Scripture: John 16:13 Composer of "DRAKE'S BROUGHTON" in The Book of Praise

Samuel Solanke

Scripture: John 16:7-15 Teacher of "WA EMIMIMO" in Glory to God

George Herbert Palmer

1846 - 1926 Person Name: George Herbert Palmer (1846-1926) Scripture: John 16:12-15 Harmonizer of "LIEBSTER JESU, WIR SIND HIER" in Common Praise (1998) Palmer, George Herbert, B.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A. 1868, curate of St. Margaret's, Toxteth Park, Liverpool, 1869-76, and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, 1876-83. Has published The Antiphoner and Grail, 1881; Harmonies of the Office Hymn-Book, 1891; The Sarum Psalter, 1894, &c. Several of his translations from the Latin are in The Hymner, 1904. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Scripture: John 16:13-14 Arranger of "LIEBSTER JESU" in Hymns of the Saints Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Alfred H. Vine

1845 - 1917 Person Name: Alfred Henry Vine, 1845-1917 Scripture: John 16:12-15 Author of "O breath of God, breathe on us now" in Together in Song Vine, Alfred H., son of J. Vine, Wesleyan minister, was born at Nottingham in 1845, educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and King's College, London, and entered the Wesleyan ministry in 1867. He has published The Doom of Saul, 1895; Songs of the Heart 1905, and Songs of Living Things, 1897. Of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. O Breath of God, breathe on us now . [Whitsuntide] 2. O Great Lord Christ,my Saviour. [The Divine Call] 3. Saviour, Thy clear eyes behold. [Omniscience of Christ] Of these Nos. 1 and 2 are from his The Doom of Saul, 1895; and No. 3 was written for the Wesleyan Young People's Hymnal, 1896. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Richard Runciman Terry

1865 - 1938 Person Name: Richard Runciman Terry, 1865-1938 Scripture: John 16:14-15 Composer of "BILLING" in Singing the Faith Terry, Richard R., was born at Morpeth, Jan. 3, 1868, and was Tate Choral Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. In 1896 he became organist and music-master at Downside R. C. College and Abbey, Bath; and in 1901 organist and director of the choir at Westminster Cathedral (R. C.) London. He contributed to A. E. Tozer's Catholic Hymns, 1898, thirteen tunes and the words of two hymns:— 1. Christ, the Lord, is my true Shepherd. Ps. xxiii. 2. Peaceful eve, so still and holy. Christmas Carol. It is marked as D. C. B., i.e. for Downside Coll., Bath. The tune by Mr. Tozor was published in 1881 to a carol beginning with the same first line, but otherwise entirely different. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)