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Arthur Henry Brown

1830 - 1926 Person Name: A. H. Brown Composer of "CONGLETON" in In Excelsis for School and Chapel Born: July 24, 1830, Brentwood, Essex, England. Died: February 15, 1926, Brentwood, Essex, England. Almost completely self taught, Brown began playing the organ at the age 10. He was organist of the Brentwood Parish Church, Essex (1842-53); St. Edward’s, Romford (1853-58); Brentwood Parish Church (1858-88); St. Peter’s Church, South Weald (from 1889); and Sir Anthony Browne’s School (to 1926). A member of the London Gregorian Association, he helped assemble the Service Book for the annual festival in St. Paul’s Cathedral. He supported the Oxford Movement, and pioneered the restoration of plainchant and Gregorian music in Anglican worship. Brown edited various publications, including the Altar Hymnal. His other works include settings of the Canticles and the Holy Communion Service, a Children’s Festival Service, anthems, songs, part songs, and over 800 hymn tunes and carols. Music: Alleluia! Sing the Triumph Arthur Dale Abbey Fields of Gold Are Glowing Gerran Holy Church Holy Rood If Angels Sang Our Savior’s Birth Lammas O, Sing We a Carol Purleigh Redemptor Mundi Ring On, Ye Joyous Christmas Bells Saffron Walden St. Anatolius St. Austell St. John Damascene St. Mabyn St. Sophronius Story of the Cross Sweet Child Divine --www.hymntime.com/tch

H. A. Henry

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Lord, while for all mankind we pray]" in Awakening Songs for the Church, Sunday School and Evangelistic Services See also Gabriel, Chas H., 1856-1932

Friedrich Burgmüller

1806 - 1874 Composer of "RHINE" in Songs of Praise and Prayer

Hubert P. Main

1839 - 1925 Composer of "[Lord! while for all mankind we pray]" in The Service Song Book Hubert Platt Main DD USA 1839-1925. Born at Ridgefield, CT, he attended singing school as a teenager. In 1854 he went to New York City and worked as an errand boy in a wallpaper house. The next year he became an errand boy in the Bristow & Morse Piano Company. He was an organist, choir leader, and compiled books of music. He also helped his father edit the “Lute Songbook” by Isaac Woodbury. In 1866 he married Olphelia Louise Degraff, and they had two sons: Lucius, and Hubert. In 1867 he filled a position at William B Bradbury’s publishing house. After Bradbury’s death in 1868 the Bigelow & Main Publishers were formed as its successor. He also worked with his father until his father’s death in 1873. Contributors to their efforts were Fanny Crosby, Ira Sankey, Wilbur Crafts, and others. In addition to publishing, Main wrote 1000+ pieces of music, including part song, singing school songs, Sunday school music, hymns, anthems, etc. He also arranged music and collected music books. He 1891 he sold his collection of over 3500 volumes to the Newberry Library in Chicago, IL, where they were known as the Main Library. Some of his major publications include: “Book of Praise for the Sunday school” (1875), “Little pilgrim songs” (1884), “Hymns of Praise” (`1884), “Gems of song for the Sunday school” (1901), “Quartettes for men’s voices: Sacred & social selections” (1913). In 1922 Hope Publishing Company acquired Bigelow & Main. He was an editor, author, compiler, and composer, as well as publisher. He died in Newark, NJ. John Perry

Shumway

1761 - 1843 Person Name: N. Shumway Composer of "FREEDOM" in The Standard Church Hymnal

Ebenezer Prout

1835 - 1909 Person Name: E. Prout Composer of "[Lord! while for all mankind we pray]" in The Spirit of Praise

J. Rusling

1788 - 1839 Person Name: Joseph Rusling Author of "On, on, on, we are marching" in The Centenary Singer Rusling, J., p. 931, i. 255, b. 1788, d. 1839. From this American writer there is a mutilated fragment in Stryker's College Hymnal, 1904: "The morn, O Christian, breaketh o'er thee" (Death and Heaven anticipated). In H. W. Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, this hymn begins “Christian, the morn breaks sweetly o'er thee." It is usually dated 1832. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Robert N. Quaile

1867 - 1937 Person Name: R. N. Quaile Composer of "COMFORT" in The New Canadian Hymnal Son of a Methodist pastor, Quaile was educated at Wesley College in Dublin. He went into business in Mallow and pursued music as a hobby. Three of his tunes appeared in the 1910 English Methodist Sunday School Hymnal. Ten years later, he lost all his possessions in the 1920 Irish uprising. —The Cyber Hymnal™

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