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Hary Fischer

b. 1942 Person Name: Hary R. Fischer (séc. XX) Author of "Neste Dia, ó Pai Amado" in Hinário para o Culto Cristão

James Chepponis

b. 1956 Person Name: James J. Chepponis, b. 1956C Author of "Called to Labor in God's Vineyard" in Worship (4th ed.)

Asaad Abdullah al-Rassi

1858 - 1915 Person Name: اسعد الراسي Author of "أيها الراعي الأمين" in كتاب الترانيم الروحية للكنائس الإنجيلية اسعد عبدالله الراسي

W. Thomas Stapleton

Author of "Called Together and United" in Moravian Book of Worship

b. 1931 Person Name: Joy F. Patterson, 1931- Author of "Christ, You Call Us All to Service" in Worship and Rejoice Joy F. Patterson (b. 1931), of Wassau, Wisconsin, is an elder in the Presbyterian Church who has written many texts and tunes; twenty-nine are collected in Come, You People of the Promise (Hope Publishing, Co., 1994); another collection, Teach Our Eyes New Ways of Seeing, was published in 2005 (Selah). Patterson has enjoyed a varied career as a French professor, homemaker, and claim representative for the Social Security Administration. Sing! A New Creation

Winfred Douglas

1867 - 1944 Person Name: Charles Winfred Douglas, 1867-1944 Harmonizer of "IN BABILONE" in The Hymnal 1982 Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He promoted chanting and plainsong in the Episcopal Church through workshops and publications such as The American Psalter (1929), the Plainsong Psalter (1932), and the Monastic Diurnal (1932). His writings include program notes for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, various hymn preludes; organ, as well as the book, Church Music in History and Practice (1937). He was editor of both the Hymnal 1916 and its significant successor, Hymnal 1940, of the Episcopal Church. Douglas's other achievements include a thorough knowledge of the life and culture of Hopi and Navajo natives, among whom he lived for a number of years. Bert Polman

Curtis Beach

1914 - 1993 Author of "O How Glorious, Full of Wonder" in The New Century Hymnal Beach, Curtis. (Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 9, 1914--February 23, 1993, Bangor, Maine). Comes from several generations of ministers. He was educated at Harvard (B.A. 1935), Boston University School of Theology (S.T.B. 1941), and the University of Southern California (Ph.D. 1957). Minister of the Neighborhood Church, Pasedena (1943-1959), and the Smithfield United Church in Pittsburgh from 1959-1975. Minister of First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, Maine, 1975-1980. --Carlton R. Young, DNAH Archives

Robert Hawkey Moreton

1844 - 1917 Author of "Salvador, por ti guardados" in Hinário Luterano Robert Hawkey Moreton was born in Argentina (1844-1917) and was instrumental in the founding of the Methodist Church (Mirante Chapel) in Oporto, Portugal. [Source?]

Rodolpho Hasse

1890 - 1968 Person Name: Rodolpho F. Hasse, 1890-1968 Author of "Cristo, Deus e Rei supremo" in Hinário Luterano Started Comunidade Evangélica Luterana da Paz, affiliated with Igreja Evangélica Luterana do Brasil in 1932. It was the first Lutheran congregation in Rio de Janeiro. [Source?]