Person Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 541 - 550 of 572Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Christopher Edwin Willing

1830 - 1904 Person Name: C. E. Willing Topics: Saints' Days and Other Holy Days All Saints' Day, Novemer 1 Composer of "MELTON" in The Book of Common Praise Christopher Edwin Willing; Devon, England, 1830 Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

M. Bedmore

Topics: Love To all saints Author of "Christian Love" in A Selection of Hymns

Seymour Swets

1900 - 2000 Topics: Church Year All Saints' Day Harmonizer of "GENEVAN 116" in Psalms for All Seasons

W. S. Rockstro

1823 - 1895 Topics: Saints' Days and Other Holy Days St. Michael and All Angels, September 29 Arranger of "OMNI DIE" in The Book of Common Praise William Rockstro (Composer, Arranger) Born: January 5, 1823 - North Cheam, Surrey (baptisized at Modern Church), England Died: July 2, 1895 - London, England The English composer and writer on music, William Smith [Smyth] Rockstro (originally: Rackstraw), was distinguished as a student of modal music and an important contributor to the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. The form of his surname by which he was known was an older style resumed after 1846. He was successively pupil of John Purkis, the blind organist, of Sterndale Bennett, and at the Leipzig Conservatorium, where he studied from I845 to 1846. He enjoyed the special friendship and tuition of Felix Mendelssohn, and was with Moritz Hauptmann for theory and with Plaidy for pianoforte. For some years after his return to England, William Rockstro was active as a teacher and performer in London, being regular accompanist at the 'Wednesday concerts,' where Braham and other eminent singers were to be heard. At this period he wrote his most popular and beautiful song, Queen and huntress; and his pianoforte editions of classical and other operas led the way in popularising that class of music in an available form for the use of those who could not read full scores; and in his indications of the orchestral instruments above the music-staves he did much to point the way towards a general appreciation of orchestral colour. In the early 1860's he left London for Torquay on account of his mother's health and his own, and on her death in 1876 he became a Roman Catholic. William Rockstro had been organist and honorary precentor at All Saints' Church, Babbacombe, from 1867, and won a high position as a teacher. Re published, with T. F. Ravenshaw, a Festival Psalter, adapted to the Gregorian Tones, in 1863, and Accompanying Harmonies to the Ferial Psalter in 1869. These were the first fruits of his assiduous study of ancient music, on which he became the first authority of his time in England. A couple of textbooks on harmony (1881) and counterpoint (1882) had a great success, and in the latter part of the first edition of the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians he wrote a large number of articles on musical archaeology generally. Later research has superseded his, but at the time he wrote, his contributions to such subjects as the music of the period which closed in 1600 were important. He was too ardent a partisan to be an ideal historian, but his History of Music for Young Students (1879) and his larger work, A General History of Music (1886), contain much that is of permanent value. His Life of Handel (1883) and Mendelssohn (1884) are fine examples of eulogistic biography, though they are hardly to be recommended as embodying a calmly critical estimate of either composer. In his larger History he showed that he was, nevertheless, not above owning himself in the wrong, and his recantation of certain excessive opinions expressed by him in the Dictionary against Wagner's later works was due to true moral courage. He conducted a concert of sacred music of the 16th and 17th centuries at the Inventions Exhibition of 1885, and in 1891 gave up Torquay for London, giving lectures at the Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music, and holding a class to counterpoint and plain-song at the latter institution. As a singing-master and teacher of the pianoforte his method of imparting instruction was remarkably successful. As a composer, William Rockstro never quite freed himself from the powerful influences engendered by his studies: the lovely madrigal, "O too cruel fair," was judged unworthy of a prize by the Madrigal Society on the ground that it was modelled too closely on Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina; and his oratorio, The Good Shepherd, produced at the Gloucester Festival of 1886 under his own direction, was found to bear too many traces of Mendelssohnian influence to deserve success. In 1891 he collaborated with Canon Scott Holland in writing the life of his old friend, Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt; an abbreviated edition came out in 1863, and with Otto Goldschmidt he wrote still a shorter book, Jenny Lind, her Vocal Art and Culture (partly reprinted from the biography). For many years his health had been bad, and he had many adverse circumstances to contend with. He fought bravely for all that he held best in art, and boundless enthusiasm carried him through. Source: Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1952 Edition; Author: J.A. Fuller Maitland; revised: H.C. Colles) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (July 2007) --www.bach-cantatas.com/Lib/

David Peacock

b. 1949 Person Name: David Peacock (b. 1949) Topics: Children and All-Age Worship; God in grace and mercy; God in judgement and justice; Judgement; Kingdom of God; Other Saints and Festivals Matthias the Apostle; Proper 17 Year C; Proper 24 Year C; Renewal; Suffering; The Church's Ministry and Mission; The Second Sunday before Advent Year B; The Third Sunday of Lent Year B Arranger of "[Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name!]" in Ancient and Modern

R. Campbell

Topics: Saints' Days and Other Holy Days St. Michael and All Angels, September 29 Author of "They come, God's messengers of love" in The Book of Common Praise

V. S. S. Coles

1845 - 1929 Person Name: Vincent Stuckey Stratton Coles (1845-1929) Topics: Annunciation; Blessed Virgin Mary; Children; Children and All-Age Worship; Family and Friends; Mary; Mothering Sunday; Other Saints and Festivals The Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary; Other Saints and Festivals The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth; Prayer; The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year B Author of "Ye who own the faith of Jesus" in Ancient and Modern Coles, Vincent Stuckey Stratton, son of Rev. James Stratton Coles, born at Shepton Beauchamp, March 27, 1845, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating B.A. 1868, and M.A. 1872. On taking Holy Orders in 1869, he became Curato of Wantage. In 1872 he was preferred as Rector of Shepton-Beauchamp, Somerset, and in 1884 Librarian of the Pusey Library, Oxford. Mr. Coles has contributed the following hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Church Hymns. 1. Lord, in whose eternal counsels. For guidance and growth in holiness. It was first printed as a leaflet, written for E. C. U. Festival, c. 1870; and then included, after revision, in S. P. C. K. Church Hymns, 1871. 2. Most Holy Father, bending low. Lent. No. 45 in the Bucharistic Hymnal, 1877. 3. 0 Lamb of God, whose love divine. Martyrs ( Virgins). Given in the Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1868. 4. O Shepherd of the sheep. Martyrs (Bishop). Also given in the Appendix to Hymns Ancient & Modern 1868. 5. We pray Thee, heavenly Father. Preparation for Holy Communion. Originally written for a Communicants' class, it was included in S. P. C. K. Church Hymns, 1871, and in the revised Hymns Ancient & Modern 1875. 6. Lord, I cannot seek Thee. Spiritual Communion. Contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, 1863, and repeated in the Churchman's Altar Manual, 1882. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ===================== Coles, V. S. S., p. 242, ii. Recently additional hymns by Mr. Coles have come into common use, including:— 1. Almighty Father, Lord most high. [Holy Communion.] Written for Hymns Ancient & Modern and given in the 1904 edition, No. 264, to be sung "At the Offertory." It is admirably suited for the purpose. 2. Father, Whose love we have wrong'd by transgression. This "Litany for Lent," in Hymns Ancient & Modern 1904, No. 633, is a cento from the author's Metrical Litany, published by Novello. The Pt. ii. in Hymns Ancient & Modern begins “Christ with the twelve the last Passover keeping." 3. We pray Thee, heavenly Father, p. 242, ii., 5. This hymn, with the exception of stanza i., is entirely rewritten in The English Hymnal, 1906. 4. Ye who own the faith of Jesus. [B. V. M.] This appeared in The English Hymnal, 1906, for "St. Mary the Virgin.” --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Harriet Parr

1828 - 1900 Person Name: Harriett Parr Topics: Saints' Days and Other Holy Days St. Michael and All Angels, September 29 Author of "Hear our prayer, O heavenly Father" in The Book of Common Praise Pseudonym: Holme Lee Parr, Harriet, was born at York in 1828, and has published several works under the nom de plume of "Holme Lee," including Maude Talbot, 1854; Sylvan Holt’s Daughter, 1858; Warp and Woof, 1861; Mr. Wynyard's Ward, 1867; and several other works of fiction. Miss Parr is known to hymnology by one hymn only, viz.:— Hear my [our] prayer, 0 heavenly Father. Evening. This beautiful and pathetic hymn appeared in her story The Wreck of the Golden Mary, which was the Christmas number of Charles Dickens's Household Words, 1856. The way in which the hymn is introduced into the story has been often told, and is worth repeating. The story sets forth how the ship Golden Mary, on her voyage to California, struck on an iceberg, and the passengers, taking to the boats, suffered privations for several days. To beguile the time they repeated stories. One of them, Dick Tarrant, a wild youth, relates some of his experiences, in which he says:— “What can it be that brings all these old things over my mind? There's a child's hymn I and Tom used to say at my mother's knee, when we were little ones, keeps running through my thoughts. It's the stars, may be; there was a little window by my bed that I used to watch them at, a window in my room at home in Cheshire; and if I were ever afraid, as boys will be after reading a good ghost story, I would keep on saying it till I fell asleep." ”That was a good mother of yours, Dick; could you say that hymn now, do you think ? Some of us might like to hear it." "It is as clear in my mind at this minute as if my mother was here listening to me," said Dick. And he repeated " 'Hear my prayer, O Heavenly Father, Ere we lay us down to sleep,' " &c. Through the instrumentality of Dr. Allon it was included in the New Congregational Hymn Book, 1859, No. 945, in 5 st. of 4 1. Since then it has reappeared in numerous collections in Great Britain and America. In some hymn-books, as in Thring's Collection, 1882, it begins, "Hear our prayer, O heavenly Father," and a doxology is added. Instead of the doxology, the Rev. W. J. Hall added the following lines (written in 1873). "Home of rest and peace unending, Whither turns my longing heart, Home from whence thro' all the ages Never more shall I depart." This addition was given in the New Mitre Hymnal, 1875. In the Parish Hymn Book, 1863 and 1875, it is a Morning hymn, and begins:— "Praise to Thee, Whose hosts have watched us Through the helpless hours of sleep," &c. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Joseph of the Studium

762 - 832 Person Name: St. Joseph Topics: Other Feasts and Fasts St. Michael and All Angels; Processionals Saints' Days Author of "Stars of the morning, so gloriously bright" in The Church Hymnal Joseph of the Studium [Joseph of Thessalonica]. This person not the same person wrongly named by Dr. Neale in his Hymns of the Eastern Church as Joseph of the Studium, author of the great Canon for the Ascension. That Joseph is St. Joseph the Hymnographer. Joseph of Thessalonica, younger brother of St. Theodore of the Studium, q.v., was some time Bishop of Thessalonica, and died in prison, after great suffering inflicted by command of Theophilus. He was probably the author of the Triodia in the Triodion, and certainly of five Canons in the Pentecostarion to which his name is prefixed. His pieces have not been translated into English. [Rev. H. Leigh Bennett, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Alexander B. Morton

Person Name: A. B. Morton Topics: Angels; Children Piety in; Christ Worshiped; Families; God Adored and Exalted; God Glorious; God Supremacy of; Gospel Gracious Fruit of; Gospel Invitations of ; Old Age; Praise By Angels; Praise By All men; Praise By Saints; Praise By the Entire Creation; Praise Calls to; Praise Of the Lord; Purposes of God; Royalty of Christ Civil Rulers His Ministers; Royalty of Christ Over All; Royalty of Christ Will Subject the World to God Composer of "[Hallelujah, praise Jehovah]" in Bible Songs