Person Results

Switch back to the old search page.Advanced Search

Showing 1 - 6 of 6Results Per Page: 10 20 50

Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven, 1770-1827 Composer of "SARDIS" in Hymnal for American Youth A giant in the history of music, Ludwig van Beethoven (b. Bonn, Germany, 1770; d. Vienna, Austria, 1827) progressed from early musical promise to worldwide, lasting fame. By the age of fourteen he was an accomplished viola and organ player, but he became famous primarily because of his compositions, including nine symphonies, eleven overtures, thirty piano sonatas, sixteen string quartets, the Mass in C, and the Missa Solemnis. He wrote no music for congregational use, but various arrangers adapted some of his musical themes as hymn tunes; the most famous of these is ODE TO JOY from the Ninth Symphony. Although it would appear that the great calamity of Beethoven's life was his loss of hearing, which turned to total deafness during the last decade of his life, he composed his greatest works during this period. Bert Polman

Grace Wilbur Conant

1858 - 1948 Composer of "MATTHAMS" in Worship and Song Pseudonym: A. B. Ponsonby. Born: September 9, 1858, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: April 7, 1948, Malden, Massachusetts. Grace remained single all her life. Her middle name was her mother’s maiden name. She served as musical editor for the Kindergarten Review for at least six years, starting in 1908. Her works include: Songs for Little People, with Frances Weld Danielson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Pilgrim Press, 1905) Worship and Song, with Benjamin S. Winchester (Pilgrim Press, 1913) Religious Dangers of Modern Tendencies in So-Called Religious Songs, 1917 Song and Play for Children, with Frances Weld Danielson (Pilgrim Press, 1925) --The Cyber Hymnal

Samuel Smith

1821 - 1917 Author of "Comrades known in marches many Comrades tried in dangers many" in American Student Hymnal

Miles O'Reilly

Author of "Comrades known in marches many" in Hymnal for American Youth

William B. Forbush

1868 - 1927 Person Name: William Byron Forbush Author of "Comrades known in marches many" in Worship and Song Born: February 20, 1868, Springfield, Vermont. Died: October 23, 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Buried: Quaker Burial Grounds, Hartford Road, Baltimore, Maryland. Forbush graduated from Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1888, and became a principal in Amherst, New Hampshire, the next year. He served as pastor of the Riverside Congregational Church, Riverside, Rhode Island (1893-94), entered Union Theological Seminary, in 1889, graduating in 1892. He received an AM in 1890 and PhD in 1892 from the University of New York, and was acting pastor at the Rockaway Church in Brooklyn while enrolled in 1890. He served as pastor at Riverside Church in East Providence, Rhode Island (1892); Tabernacle Church, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1894-96); Warren, Massachusetts (1896-1908); Winthrop Church, Boston, Massachusetts (1905-06); and Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan (to 1913). In 1913, he became President of the American Institute of Child Life in Philadelphia, resigning in 1914 to pursue writing. He established his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he lived the rest of his life and for a time headed the Woolman House, a school of social and religious education under the Quaker management of Swarthmore. In 1895, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Hanover College, Indiana. He founded the Knights of King Arthur in 1893, which attracted thousands of young boys. In 1918, he became General Editor of the publications of the University Society of New York, serving until 1924, when he became consulting editor of the John C. Winston Publishing Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His works include: The Queens of Avalon, 1911 The Coming Generation (New York & London: D. Appleton and Company, 1912) Manual of Stories, 1915 The Wonder Book of Myths and Legends (The John C. Winston Company: 1928) Myths and Legends of Greece and Rome --www.hymntime.com/tch/