1834 - 1881 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Composer of "SIONSTONER, NO. 388" in Hymnal and Order of Service Agathon Billeter, bron at Männedorf, Zurich, Nov. 21, 1834, died at Burgdorf, Feb. 8, 1881. Vocal composer, pupil of the Liepsic Conservatorium; organist and music director at Burgdorf, Switzerland. He has composed very popular choruses for male voices.
Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)
Agathon Billeter