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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: God's Promise of Redemption Harmonizer of "SALZBURG" in Psalms for All Seasons 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)

Charles H. Webb

b. 1933 Person Name: Charles H. Webb, b. 1933 Topics: God's Promise of Redemption Composer of "ARISE (RESTORATION)" in Psalms for All Seasons

William Amps

1824 - 1910 Person Name: W. Amps (1824-1910) Topics: The Promise of Redemption Moses Composer of "VENICE" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Amps was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge (BA 1858, MA 1862). He played the organ at King’s College (1855-76) and Christ’s College. He also conducted the Cambridge University Musical Society for many years. Amps composed a good deal of music, including piano sonatas and part songs.

Hugh Davies

1844 - 1907 Person Name: H. Davies (1844-1907) Topics: The Promise of Redemption Moses Arranger of "ARFON" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.)

Cecil James Sharp

1859 - 1924 Person Name: C. J. Sharp (1859-1924) Topics: The Promise of Redemption Moses Adapter of "MENDIP" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Cecil Sharp (1859-1924) was the most important of the English folk song collectors, gathering 4,977 tunes. He published 1, 118 of them and provided accompaniments for 501. His work led to a renewed interest in English art music and gave impetus to composers of the day, including Ralph Vaughan Williams. His influence on Vaughan Williams can be seen throughout The English Hymnal (1906). Among Sharp’s publications is Folk Songs from Somerset issued in five parts from 1904 to 1909. Sharp was also an authority on the folk dance. During World War I, Sharp visited America gathering tunes and dances of English origin. After his death the tunes were published in a two-volume collection English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians edited by Maud Karpeles. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Justin Heinrich Knecht

1752 - 1817 Person Name: Justin H. Krecht Topics: God's Promise of Redemption Composer of "ST. EDITH" in Psalms for All Seasons Justin Heinrich Knecht Germany 1752-1817. Born at Biberach Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, he attended a Lutheran college in Esslingen am Neckar from 1768-1771. Having learned the organ, keyboard, violin and oratory, he became a Lutheran preceptor (professor of literature) and music director in Biberach. It was a free imperial city until 1803 and had a rich cultural life. He became organist of St. Martin’s Church in 1792, used by both Lutherans and Catholics, and was there for many years. He led an energetic, busy musical life, composing for both the theatre and church, organizing subscription concerts, teaching music theory, acoustics, aesthetics, composition, and instruments at the Gymnasium, affiliated to the Musikschule in 1806. He went to Stuttgart in 1806 in hopes of a post there as Kapellmeister, serving two years as Konzertmeister, but he was appointed Direktor Beim Orchester by the King of Wurttemberg in 1807. However, he returned to his former life in 1808 and remained there the rest of his life. He died at Biberach. He wrote 10 vocals, 11 opera and stage works, one symphony, 3 chamber music instrumentals, 7 organ works, 4 piano works, and 6 music theories. He was an author composer, editor, contributor, musician, compiler, and lyricist. John Perry

Henry Thomas Smart

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Topics: Adoption; Adoration; Angels; Anger of God Restrained; Christ Atonement of; Christ Glorying in; Christ Grace and Love of; Christ The Saviour; Christ Worshiped; Christians Saved by Grace; Comfort in Trials; Contentment; Covenant Promises; Deliverance From Sin; Faith Confession of; Family; Godly Fear Blessedness of; God Adored and Exalted; God Attributes of; God Compassion of ; God Fatherhood of; God Goodness of; God Kingly Character of; God Love and Mercy; Gospel Freeness of ; Gospel Fulness of ; Grace Justifying; Grace Redeeming; Life Brevity and Uncertainty of; Lord's Supper; Man Mortal and Frail; Mercy of God Great; Pardon Set Forth; Parents and Children; Praise By Universe; Praise Calls to; Praise For God's Mercy; Praise For Spiritual Blessings; Praise For Work of Redemption; Royalty of Christ Universal Domain of; Salvation From Sin and Trouble; Thanksgiving Declared Composer of "PILGRIMS" in The Psalter Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman

James Leith Macbeth Bain

1840 - 1925 Person Name: J. L. Macbeth Bain, 1840-1925 Topics: God's Promise of Redemption Composer of "BROTHER JAMES' AIR" in Psalms for All Seasons James Leith Macbeth Bain (b. Scotland, c. 1840; d. Liverpool, England, 1925), was a healer, mystic, and poet known simply as Brother James. The tune BROTHER JAMES AIR was first published in his volume The great peace: being a New Year's greeting ... (1915). Born in a devout Christian home, Bain came to doubt the faith but later regained a mystical belief with the aid of the Christo Theosophic Society. He founded the Brotherhood of Healers, and he and his fellow healers often sang to their patients during healing sessions. In the latter years of his life he worked among the poor in the slums of Liverpool. He published a book on healing entitled The Brotherhood of Healers ... (1906). Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Michael Saward

1932 - 2015 Topics: God's Promise of Redemption Author of "The Earth is Yours, O God" in Psalms for All Seasons Michael John Saward (b. Blackheath, Kent, England, 1932) was residentiary Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, and a church commissioner and member of the general synod of the Church of England. Educated at Eltham College, Bristol University, and Tyndale Hall, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1956. Saward served in several congregations and was radio and television officer for the Church Information Office (1967-1972). His publications include Leisure (1963), Couldn’t Care Less (1966), Don't Miss the Party (1974), and All Change (1983). Associated with the Jubilate Group for a number of years, he has written some sixty hymns and served as text editor for Hymns for Today's Church (1982). Bert Polman

Evelyn Simpson-Curenton

b. 1953 Person Name: Evelyn Simpson-Currenton Topics: Christ's Return; Healing; Kingdom of God; Rédemption; Trusting in the Promises of God Arranger of "I'LL FLY AWAY" in Glory to God Evelyn Simpson Curenton (born 1953) is a leading African-American composer, pianist, organist, and vocalist. Simpson Curenton began piano lessons at age 5, began to perform with the Singing Simpsons of Philadelphia, a family group, and earned a B.M., Music Education and Voice from Temple University. She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, the late Duke Ellington, and her sister, the late Joy Simpson, arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North). Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era. --en.wikipedia.org