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Albert Coppo

b. 1962 Person Name: Albert Coppo, n. 1962 Topics: Cantos de Comunión Author of "En la Mesa del Señor" in Flor y Canto (4th ed.)

Azeneth González

b. 1981 Person Name: Azeneth González, n. 1981 Topics: Cantos de Comunión Author of "Venimos a Ti" in Flor y Canto (4th ed.)

1830 - 1895 Person Name: Alexander Ewing, 1830-1895 Topics: Comunión con Cristo Composer of "EWING" in Culto Cristiano Alexander C (Rex) Ewing United Kingdom 1830-1895. Born at Aberdeen,Scotland, he studied music and German at Heidelberg University and law in Aberdeen. However, he did not qualify as a lawyer. A member of the Aberdeen Harmonic Choir and the Hadyn Society of Aberdeen, he was regarded as the most talented young musician in the city. He became an author, musician, editor, composer, and translator. He married Juliana Horatia Gatty in 1867. She died in 1885, and he remarried Elizabeth Margaret Cumby in 1886. He was a career officer in the British Army's Commissariat Department and subsequently the Army Pay Corps. He served at Constantinople during the Crimean War, thereafter in China for six years, then in Ireland during the Fenian Uprising. He was then in New Brunswick just after England created the British North American Act, creating the Dominion of Canada. He then went to Fredericton, where he played the organ and sang at Christ Church Cathedral. He was transferred to Aldershot. In 1879 he went to Malta, then served in Ceylon before returning to England. He reached the rank of Lt. Col. He translated several works by other authors. He retired and spent the last six years of his life in Taunton, England, where he died. John Perry

Peter Abelard

1079 - 1142 Topics: Comunión de los Santos; Comunión de los Santos Author of "¡Oh, cuánto gozo!" in El Himnario Abelard, Peter, born at Pailais, in Brittany, 1079. Designed for the military profession, he followed those of philosophy and theology. His life was one of strange chances and changes, brought about mainly through his love for Heloise, the niece of one Fulbert, a Canon of the Cathedral of Paris, and by his rationalistic views. Although a priest, he married Heloise privately. He was condemned for heresy by the Council of Soissons, 1121, and again by that of Sens, 1140; died at St. Marcel, near Chalons-sur-Saône, April 21, 1142. For a long time, although his poetry had been referred to both by himself and by Heloise, little of any moment was known except the Advent hymn, Mittit ad Virginem, (q.v.). In 1838 Greith published in his Spicihgium Vaticanum, pp. 123-131, six poems which had been discovered in the Vatican. Later on, ninety-seven hymns were found in the Royal Library at Brussels, and pub. in the complete edition of Abelard's works, by Cousin, Petri Abelardi Opp., Paris, 1849. In that work is one of his best-known hymns, Tuba Domini, Paule, maxima (q.v.). Trench in his Sacra Latina Poetry, 1864, gives his Ornarunt terram germina (one of a series of poems on the successive days' work of the Creation), from Du Meril's Poesies Popul. Lat. du Moyen Age, 1847, p. 444. -John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Ernest Hawkins

1802 - 1868 Person Name: Ernest Hawkins, 1807-1868 Topics: Comunión de los Santos Adapter of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song 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)

Joseph P. Holbrook

1822 - 1888 Person Name: Joseph P. Holbrook, 1822-1888 Topics: La Vida Cristiana Comunión con Cristo; Santa Comunión Composer of "BELMONT (BERNARD)" in Culto Cristiano Joseph P. Holbrook was a tune writer in the parlor music style, and used the popular melodies of Mason and Hastings, Bradbury and Root, Greatorex and Kingsley in his collections. He furnished settings for the choir hymns in Songs for the Sanctuary in his Quartet and chorus Choir (New York, 1871, and sought more recogniation than had been given him in a hymnal of his own, Worship in Song (New York, 1880); a book that found no welcome. from The English hymn: its development and use in worship By Louis FitzGerald Benson

E. A. Monfort Díaz

Person Name: E. A. Montfort Díaz Topics: La Vida Cristiana Comunión con Cristo Translator of "Gloria cantemos al Redentor" in Culto Cristiano

Lorenzo Álvarez

1897 - 1969 Person Name: Lorenzo Álvarez, 1897-1969 Topics: Comunión de los Santos Translator (sts. 1, 3, 4) of "Alleluia! Sing to Jesus (¡Aleluya! Gloria a Cristo)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Dieter Trautwein

1928 - 2002 Topics: Comunion Translator (German) of "Let us break bread together" in Agape

Frederick C. Atkinson

1841 - 1896 Person Name: F. C. Atkinson Topics: La Iglesia La Santa Comunion Composer of "MORECAMBE" in El Himnario Born: August 21, 1841, Norwich, Norfolk, England. Died: November 30, 1896, East Dereham, Norfolk, England. As a boy Atkinson was a chorister and assistant organist at Norwich Cathedral. In 1867 he graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree from Cambridge and then served as organist and choirmaster in St. Luke's Church, Manningham, Bradford. He also held that position at Norwich Cathedral and at St. Mary's Parish Church in Lewisham. Atkinson wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and complete Anglican services, as well as songs and piano pieces. Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988