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David Iliff

Scripture: Psalm 70 Arranger of "SPLENDOUR" in Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship

1848 - 1934 Scripture: Psalm 70 Harmonizer of "PUER NOBIS" in Psalms for All Seasons Educated at Caius College in Cambridge, England, George R. Woodward (b. Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, 1848; d. Highgate, London, England, 1934) was ordained in the Church of England in 1874. He served in six parishes in London, Norfolk, and Suffolk. He was a gifted linguist and translator of a large number of hymns from Greek, Latin, and German. But Woodward's theory of translation was a rigid one–he held that the translation ought to reproduce the meter and rhyme scheme of the original as well as its contents. This practice did not always produce singable hymns; his translations are therefore used more often today as valuable resources than as congregational hymns. With Charles Wood he published three series of The Cowley Carol Book (1901, 1902, 1919), two editions of Songs of Syon (1904, 1910), An Italian Carol Book (1920), and the Cambridge Carol Book

Henry Bryan Hays

1920 - 2017 Person Name: Henry B. Hays Scripture: Psalm 70:1-3 Composer of "CHICKAHOMINY" in Lift Up Your Hearts Henry Bryon Hays O.S.B. (b. Clarksville, TN, 1920) composed CHICKAHOMINY, which was published in his collection of hymn tunes, Swayed Pines Song Book (1981). Hays was raised in the Protestant tradition but since the 1950s has been a Benedictine monk at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. A Civil War devotee, he has derived his hymn tune titles from names of battles or places associated with that war. Bert Polman

Elkanah Kelsay Dare

1782 - 1826 Person Name: Elkana Kelsay Dare Scripture: Psalm 70 Composer (attributed to) of "KEDRON" in Psalms and Hymns to the Living God Elkanah Kelsey Dare (1782-1826) was born in New Jersey but moved to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania sometime before 1818. He was a Methodist [sic Presbyterian] minister and very possibly the music editor for John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second (1813), a shaped-note collection that includes more than a dozen of his tunes. Emily Brink

Mark A. Miller

Scripture: Psalm 70:4-5 Author of "There's a Spirit of Love in This Place" in Worship and Song

Elaine Kirkland

Scripture: Psalm 70 Composer of "[Hasten to help me, O God]" in Voices United

Michel Guimont

b. 1950 Person Name: Michel Guimont, 1950- Scripture: Psalm 70 Composer of "[Be pleased, O God, to deliver me]" in Hymns for a Pilgrim People

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809-1847 Scripture: Psalm 70 Composer of "MUNICH" in Psalms of Grace Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman