Person Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 91 - 100 of 316Results Per Page: 10 20 50

B. R. Hanby

1833 - 1867 Topics: Adoration; Children's Hymns for Children; Christ Life and Ministry Author of "Who Is He in Yonder Stall" Benjamin Russell Hanby was born July 22, 1833, the oldest of eight children, to Bishop William Hanby in Rushville, OH. The family moved to Westerville,OH where Bishop Hanby was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad. In his short life Benjamin graduated from Otterbein, taught school, became a United Brethren minister, started a singing school, was editor for John Church publishers in Cincinnati and composed many songs and hymns before he died of tuberculosis March 15, 1867. His home in Westerville was Ohio's first memorial to a composer. It was a stop on the Underground Railroad for slaves escaping to Canada and is a national historic site, a Methodist church Landmark and a Network to Freedom site for the National Park Service. There is a Hanby Residence Hall at Otterbein University. Best known for "Up on the housetop" and "Darling Nellie Gray," Hanby published many hymns including "Little Eyes" and "Who is He? Mary Louise VanDyke

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Charles H. Gabriel, 1856-1932 Topics: Daily bread; Creation; Death; Holy Spirit; Labor; Meditation; Morning; Name Of God; God in Nature; Providence of God; The Sea; Seasons; Wisdom of God; Word of God Composer of "ASPINWALL" in Psalter Hymnal (Red) Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman

Kenneth W. Louis

Person Name: Kenneth W. Louis, b.1956 Topics: Holy Name of God Author of "Christ Is Our Peace" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.)

Jeanne Cotter

b. 1964 Topics: 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A; 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A; 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C; 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B; Blessing; Compassion; Covenant; Easter Season; Eucharist; Funeral; Holy Name; Interfaith; Justice; Lent; Lent 3 Year C; Love of God for Us; Marriage; Mercy; Pastoral Care of the Sick; Patience Author of "Psalm 103: The Lord Is Kind and Merciful" in RitualSong

Stewart Cross

1928 - 1989 Person Name: Stewart Cross (1928-1989) Topics: Trinity Sunday; Church Year Pentecost; God in majesty; Holy Spirit inspiration of; Holy Spirit names and images for; Love for Others; Proper 17 Year A; Proper 20 Year C; Renewal; Sharing and Caring; The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year A Author of "Father, Lord of all creation" in Ancient and Modern

Owen D. Barker

1899 - 1974 Person Name: Owen D. Barker, 1899-1974 Topics: Faithfulness of God; Grace; Healing; Holy Name; Love of God for Us; Majesty and Power; Mercy; Morning; Praise; Providence; Song Author of "How Beautiful the Morning and the Day" in Worship (3rd ed.)

Julius Röntgen

1855 - 1932 Person Name: Julius Röntgen (1855-1932) Topics: The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit in the Church - Illumination of God's Word; Church Worship; Holy Spirit name and images for; Justice and Peace; Music and Song; Nurture; Wisdom; Witness Collector of "IN BABILONE" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) An important Dutch pianist, composer, conductor, scholar, and editor, Julius Rontgen (b. Leipzig, Germany, 1855; d. Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1932) studied music in Leipzig with well-known German teachers. In 1877 he moved to Amsterdam, where he first taught at the Amsterdam Conservatory. In 1886 he became conductor of the Society for the Advancement of Musical Art. He returned to the Conservatory as director in 1918, and then retired in 1924 to devote himself to composition. He was a friend of leading composers of his day, including Liszt, Brahms, and Grieg, and wrote a biography of Grieg. Rontgen's compositions include symphonies, chamber works, operas, and film scores. Bert Polman

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha Hoffman Topics: Order of Service Communion; Cleansing; Communion; Devotional; God's Glory and Power; God Worthiness; Holiness, Purity, Sanctification; Jesus Christ His Blood; Jesus Christ His Cross; Jesus Christ His Glory and Power; Jesus Christ His Name; Salvation; Sin; Worship and Adoration Author of "Glory to His Name" in Zion still Sings Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

Chris Tomlin

b. 1972 Topics: Adoration; Darkness and Light; God Images and Names of; God Mystery and Holiness of; God Power of; Reign of Christ; Reign of God Author of "How Great Is Our God (Cuán grande es Dios)" in Voices Together

David Lee

b. 1956 Topics: Church Year Lent; Enemies; God's Name; God's Power; Gratitude; People of God / Church Suffering; Prayer; Temptation And Trial; The Needy; Witness; Year A, B, C, Holy Week, Wednesday of Holy Week; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12 Author of "Psalm 70 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons LEE, DAVID (b. 1956): B.Sc. Geology with Geophysics, University of Durham; M.Sc. Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Working life in I. T. Support in university and scientific research. He has been active in church music since his early teens. He is member of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 2007 was elected to serve on its executive committee.Hymn, song and anthem settings appear in (amongst others) Singing the Faith, RSCM (Royal School of Church Music) collections, Lutheran Service Book (LCMS), Psalms for All Seasons., In Melody and Songs David Lee(from In Melody and Song, Darcey Press, 2014, and previous (uncited) bio