Person Results

Lizzie Tourjée

1858 - 1913 Person Name: L. Tourjee Composer of "WELLESLEY" in Christ in Song Lizzie Shove Tourjee Estabrook USA 1858-1913. Born in Newport, RI, daughter of a famed music educator, organist, and composer, he encouraged her efforts at composing. When 17, she composed the tune for the famous hymn “Wellesley”. When her father, founder of the New England Conservatory of Music, became editor of the Methodist hymnal, he included her tune in the 1878 edition of the book, naming it for the college she attended, as she had written the tune while attending that school. She married Franklin Estabrook in 1883. They had a son, Rufus. She taught music and was an organist in Auburndale, MA. She died in Newton, MA. John Perry

George William Warren

1828 - 1902 Person Name: Geo. Wm. Warren, Mus. Doc. Composer of "[God is love; His mercy brightens]" in The New Children's Hymnal George W. Warren (b. Albany, NY, 1828; d. New York, 1902) received his general education at Racine College in Wisconsin, but as a musician he was largely self-trained. An organist in a number of Episcopal churches, he played the organ for thirty years (1870-1900) at St. Thomas Church in New York City. Warren composed anthems and liturgical service music; his hymn tunes were collected in Warren's Hymns and Tunes as Sung in St. Thomas Church (1888). Bert Polman

Charlotte Alington Barnard

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Charlotte A. Barnard, 1830-1869 Composer of "BROCKLESBURY" in Hymnal and Order of Service Mrs. Charles Barnard, usage: Claribel. See also Claribel, 1830-1869

Thomas Clark

1775 - 1859 Composer of "ESSEX" in Hymn and Tune Book of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (Round Note Ed.) Baptized: February 5, 1775, Canterbury, Kent, England. Died: May 30, 1859, at his home in St. George’s Street, Canterbury, Kent, England. A cobbler and choir trainer, Clark led the singing of the Psalms at the Wesleyan Chapel, Canterbury, and later at the Unitarian Church in Canterbury. It has been claimed he never actually joined the Unitarians, though he sympathized with them, and he resigned from the Methodists. Clark wrote a number of anthems, including "Awake Up, My Glory", "Daughter of Zion" and "Since I Have Placed My Trust." His other works include: First Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, 1805 Second Sett of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, circa 1810 Congregational Harmonist, 4 volumes (1828 to circa 1835) The Sacred Gleaner, 1830 The Union Tune-Book, 1837 (co-editor) Union Harmonist, 1841 Harmonized the second edition of the Union Tune Book for the Sunday School Union, 1842 The Juvenile Harmonist, 1842 David’s Harp—A Series of Original Tunes Composed Expressly to the Psalter, 1843 The Seraphim or Sacred Harmonist, 1843 British Psalmody, with Alexander Hume (Edinburgh, Scotland: 1844) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Ethelbert W. Bullinger

1837 - 1913 Person Name: Rev. E. W. Bullinger Composer of "SAMARIA" in The Smaller Hymnal Ethelbert William Bullinger DD United Kingdom 1837-1913. Born in Canterbury, he was an Anglican clergyman, Biblical scholar, and ultradispensationalist theologian and writer. Educated at King's College, London, he became a good organist, singer, and composer. He married Emma Dobson, 13 years his senior, and they had two sons. In 1861 he began as Associate Curate to the parish of St. Mary Magdelene, Bermondsey, and was ordained as priest in the Church of England in 1862. He served as parish curate in Tittleshall until 1866, then Notting Hill until 1869, them Leytonstone to 1870, and finally Walthamstow, until becoming Vicar of the new parish of St. Stephen's in 1874. He resigned his vicarage in 1888. In 1867 he was clerical secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, which he held (except for illnesses) until his death. The Society completed and published a Hebrew version of the New Testament, the Tanakh (introduction to the Hebrew Bible), formation of the Brittany evangelical Mission Society under Pasteur LeCoat and translation of the Bible into Breton, also producing the first ever Protestant Portuguese reference Bible. It also distributed Spanish Bibles in Spain after the 1868 Spanish Revolution. Bullinger, a practiced musician, collected and harmonized untranscribed hymns on his visits to Tremel, Brittany. He wrote many articles, edited a monthly journal “Things to come”. He wrote 4 Biblical works (16 works). John Perry

Claribel

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Charlotte A. Barnard Composer of "[God is love; His mercy brightens]" in The Junior Hymnal, Containing Sunday School and Luther League Liturgy and Hymns for the Sunday School Barnard [nee Pye], Charlotte Alington [Claribel]; b. Louth, Lincs., Dec. 23, 1830, d. Dover, Jan. 30, 1869; English ballad composer. --Library of Congress Name Authority Record (see link)

Johann G. C. Störl

1675 - 1719 Person Name: J. G. C. Störl Composer of "STUTTGARD" in Hymns of the Faith with Psalms Johann Georg Stoerl; b. 1675, Kirchberg; d. 1719, Stuttgart Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

John H. Willcox

1827 - 1875 Person Name: John H. Wilcox Composer of "FABEN" in The Sanctuary Hymnal, published by Order of the General Conference of the United Brethren in Christ

George C. Hugg

1848 - 1907 Person Name: Geo. C. Hugg Composer of "[God is love; His mercy brightens]" in The Helper in Sacred Song George Crawford Hugg USA 1848-1907. Born near Haddonfield, NJ, he became choirmaster at the Berlin, NJ, Presbyterian Church at age 12. At age 14 he published his first song, “Walk in the light”, which became very popular. He married Anne E Ketchum, and they had a daughter, Evangeline. He served as choirmaster of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, and also the Broad Street and Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Churches there. He was also closely associated with the Harper Memorial Presbyterian Church there. He was a prolific composer with over 2000 works, publishing 18 books of revival and Sunday school music, and 90 songs for special occasions (Christmas, Easter, etc.). He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry

J. H. Cornell

1828 - 1894 Person Name: John Henry Cornell, (1828-1894) Composer of "AGAPE" in The Sunday School Hymnal An organist for St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Church, Cornell compiled the Congregational Tune Book in 1872. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

User Links

User Links

Discover

Collections

Store

Connect

Search