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Margaret Douroux

b. 1941 Person Name: Margaret Pleasant Douroux Topics: Commitment and Submission Author of "Give Me a Clean Heart" in Zion still Sings

1830 - 1895 Person Name: C. Dunbar Topics: Commitment and Submission Arranger of "[My life, my love I give to Thee]" in Yes, Lord! Rv Charles R Dunbar USA 1830-1895. Born in Pulaski,NY, he became a minister. He died in Columbus, OH. John Perry

Albert Hay Malotte

1895 - 1964 Person Name: Albert Hay Malotte, 1895-1964 Topics: Commitment and Submission Composer of "[Our Father, which art in heaven]" in Total Praise

Eleanor Allen Schroll

1878 - 1966 Person Name: Eleanor Allen Schroll, 1878-1966 Topics: Commitment and Submission Author of "The Beautiful Garden of Prayer" in Total Praise Born: 1878, Newport, Kentucky. Died: January 8, 1966, Daytona Beach, Florida. Buried: Southgate, Kentucky. Lyrics-- Beautiful Garden of Prayer, The He Lives --www.hymntime.com/bio

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach Topics: Commitment and Submission Harmonizer of "" in Hymns for the Family of God 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)

Charlotte Alington Barnard

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Charlotte A. Barnard Topics: Commitment and Submission Composer of "BARNARD" in Hymns for the Family of God Mrs. Charles Barnard, usage: Claribel (pseudonym) See also Claribel, 1830-1869

E. E. Hewitt

1851 - 1920 Topics: Commitment and Submission Author of "Count on Me" in Yes, Lord! Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

J. Lincoln Hall

1866 - 1930 Topics: Commitment and Submission Composer of "[The Lord has need of workers, to till His field today]" in Yes, Lord! Used pseudonyms Maurice A. Clifton and Arthur Wilton. =============== Joseph Lincoln Hall DMus USA 1866-1930. Born in Philadelphia, PA, to musical parents, he also was musical, having a good tenor voice. He was an organist and music teacher. At age 19 he led a 100 member choir for 10 years. He studied music and graduated with honors from the University of PA, later receiving a Doctor of Music degree from Harriman University, from which he was an alumnus. In 1896 he married Eva Victoria Withington, and they had four children. Three lived to adulthood, Lincoln, Ralph, and Philip. A musician, he was a great song leader and choral conductor, conducting campmeeting choirs in PA, OH, and FL, at the Gainesville Bible Conference as well. He became a gospel song composer, arranger, editor, and publisher. He wrote cantatas, oratorios, choir anthems, and hundreds of gospel songs. He also edited several hymnals. Along with Irvin Mack, he founded the Hall-Mack Publishing Company (later Rodeheaver). They published nine songbooks. He was a member of the 7th Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia. John Perry

Richard Smallwood

b. 1948 Topics: Commitment and Submission Author of "I Love the Lord" in Zion still Sings Richard Smallwood (b. Washington, D.C., 1948), a composer, arranger, pianist, and innovator in the African American gospel style. Many of his arrangements of gospel hymns appear in Lift Every Voice and Sing (1981). Organized by Smallwood in 1967, the Richard Smallwood Singers have sung and recorded many of his arrangements. He remains their current director. Smallwood has a BM degree from Howard University, Washington, DC. Bert Polman