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Ludwig van Beethoven

1770 - 1827 Person Name: Beethoven Composer of "[Am I Coming, truly coming]" in Joyful Songs 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

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Am I Coming" in Kingdom of Song for the Sunday School In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

T. M. Bowdish

1860 - 1937 Composer of "[Am I coming, truly coming]" in Kingdom of Song for the Sunday School T. M. Bowdish was born on February 28, 1860 in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania and died on July 26, 1937 in Brockway, Pennsylvania. His works include: The Kingdom of Song (Toledo, Ohio: The W. W. Whitney Company, 1900) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)