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Melchior Franck

1559 - 1639 Person Name: Melchior Franck, c. 1579-1639 Composer of "[When will the fighting cease]" in Singing the Journey Melchior Franck; b. about 1580, Zittau, Germany; d. 1639, Coburg, Germany Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

1710 - 1736 Person Name: Pergolesi Composer of "MEDWAY" in The Gospel Psalmist

Bartholomew Brown

1772 - 1854 Person Name: Brown Author of "How shall I come before the Lord" in Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation

James Fanch

1704 - 1767 Author of "Beyond the glittering, starry globe [globes] [sky] [skies]" in Hymns for the Use of the Society of United Christian Friends Professing the Faith of Universal Salvation Fanch, James, known as the joint author with Daniel Turner of the hymn "Beyond the glittering, starry skies " (q.v.), was born in 1704, and died Dec. 12, 1767. He was for many years a Baptist Minister at Romsey, and Lockerly, Hants. In addition to Sermons, &c, he published a Paraphrase on a Select Number of the Psalms of David, done from the Latin of Buchanan, to which are added some Occasional Pieces, 1764. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Douglas LeTell Rights

1891 - 1956 Person Name: Douglas L. Rights Author of "Peace on earth, good will to men" in Hymns for the Celebration of Life

Charles Avison

1709 - 1770 Person Name: Avison Composer of "MIRIAM" in The Gospel Psalmist Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, studied music in Italy, then served as organist of St. Nicholas' in Newcastle. He was respected both for his instrumental compositions and arrangements, and his writings on musical aesthetics. The hymn tunes attributed to him are adaptations. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Howland Lathrop

1880 - 1967 Author of "Hosanna in the highest!" in The Beacon Song and Service book Lathrop, Rev. John Howland, D.D. (Jackson, Michigan, June 6, 1880-1967). He graduated from Meadville Theological School in 1903, then entered Harvard where he took an A.B. in 1905. He also studied at the University of Chicago, and the University of Jena. He served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Berkeley, California, 1905-1911, and the First Unitarian Congregational Church of Brooklyn, New York, 1911-1957, when he became pastor emeritus. In 1935 he wrote a hymn for Palm Sunday beginning "Hosanna in the highest! Our eager hearts acclaim," which was included in Hymns of the Spirit (1937), set to St. Theodulph. --Henry Wilder Foote, DNAH Archives

Hudson Tuttle

1836 - 1910 Author of "I love to tell the story of unseen things above" in The Truth Seeker Collection of Forms, Hymns and Recitations, Original and Selected, for the Use of Liberals Fruit farmer and horse breeder from Berlin Heights, OH. He was also a spiritualist and a writer. Although he had very little formal schooling, his writings, which he claimed were given to him by the spirits, were quoted by Charles Darwin and Ludwig Buchner. He was married to Emma Rood Hudson

Edward Harwood

1707 - 1787 Person Name: Harwood Composer of "RAPTURE" in The Gospel Psalmist Edward Harwood (of Darwen) (1707–1787) was an English composer of hymns, anthems and songs. His setting of Alexander Pope's The Dying Christian (Vital spark of heav'nly flame) was enormously popular at one time and was widely performed at funerals. Edward Harwood was born at Hoddlesden, near Darwen, Lancashire, in 1707. His early training was as a hand-loom weaver, but he subsequently became a professional musician in Liverpool. His first collection of psalmody, A set of hymns and psalm tunes, was published in London in 1781 and a second collection, entitled A Second Set of Hymns and Psalm Tunes/ was published at Chester in 1786. He died in 1787. Harwood's setting of Pope's ode "Vital spark of heav'nly flame" was first published in Harwood's A set of hymns and psalm tunes: it is written in the style of a glee, and in the original publication is written for the most part for three voices (two trebles and bass), with a fourth (tenor) part being added for the last few bars only. It was, however, often arranged for the more usual four part-choir. The piece was very popular in the first half of the 19th century, being widely sung among Anglicans, Methodists and dissenters, and Lightwood noted in 1935 that it 'certainly had a long and prosperous run, and even now it is not quite extinct'. However, it was not always a great favourite with the clergy, whose objections were mainly to do with the text, which is not explicitly religious (also, it's a poem written by a Catholic, after the last words of the Emperor Hadrian). --en.wikipedia.org/wik

Eliza Cook

1817 - 1889 Author of "Let us speak of a man as we find him, and censure" in The Truth Seeker Collection of Forms, Hymns and Recitations, Original and Selected, for the Use of Liberals Cook, Eliza, daughter of a merchant in Southwark, was born Dec. 24, 1817, and died at Wimbledon, Sept. 23, 1889. Her works in poetry and prose are well and widely known. Her hymn published in 1860, "Father above, I pray to Thee" (Child's Evening Hymn), is in several hymn-books, including Martineau's Hymns, &c, 1873. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================== Cook, Eliza, p. 1558, i. She died at Wimbledon, Sept. 24 (not 23), 1889. Her hymn, "Father above, I pray," &c, is from her Poems, 1853, vol. iv., p. 201. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)