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Gracia Grindal

b. 1943 Scripture: Luke 1:47 Author of "To a Maid Engaged to Joseph" in The Presbyterian Hymnal Gracia Grindal (b. Powers Lake, ND, 1943). Grindal was educated at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota; the University of Arkansas; and Luther-Northwestern Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota, where she has served since 1984 as a professor of pastoral theology and communications. From 1968 to 1984 she was a professor of English and poet-in-residence at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. Included in her publications are Sketches Against the Dark (1981), Scandinavian Folksongs (1983), Lessons in Hymnwriting (1986, 1991), We Are One in Christ: Hymns, Paraphrases, and Translations (1996), Good News of Great Joy: Advent Devotions for the Home (1994 with Karen E. Hong), Lina Sandell, the Story of Her Hymns (2001 with John Jansen), and A Revelry of Harvest: New and Selected Poems (2002). She was instrumental in producing the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) and The United Methodist Hymnal (1989). Bert Polman

Gregory J. Polan

b. 1950 Person Name: Gregory J. Polan, OSB Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Composer (Conception Ab. Tone) of "[My soul rejoices, my soul rejoices]" in Worship (4th ed.)

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach Scripture: Luke 1:48 Harmonizer of "WIE SCHÖN LEUCHTET" in Rejoice in the Lord Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Alejandro Mejia

b. 1937 Person Name: Alejandro Mejia, n. 1973 Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Author of "Lucas 1:46-55: Mi Alma Glorifica al Señor (Glorify the Lord, My Soul)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Francisco Palazón

b. 1938 Scripture: Luke 1:47-55 Adapter of "Mi alma glorifica al Señor mi Dios" in El Himnario

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1958) Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Author of "Heaven shall not wait" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Jane Parker Huber

1926 - 2008 Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Author of "For Ages Women Hoped and Prayed" in The Worshiping Church

Stephanie K Frey

Person Name: Stephanie K. Frey, 1952- Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Versifier of "My Soul Now Magnifies the Lord" in Lutheran Book of Worship

Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Person Name: Fred Kaan, b. 1929 Scripture: Luke 1:46-55 Author of "Sing we a song of high revolt" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)