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Martin Shaw

1875 - 1958 Person Name: M. Shaw Composer of "SWISS COTTAGE" in A Missionary Hymn Book Martin F. Shaw was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and was organist and choirmaster at St. Mary's, Primrose Hill (1908-1920), St. Martin's in the Fields (1920-1924), and the Eccleston Guild House (1924-1935). From 1935 to 1945 he served as music director for the diocese of Chelmsford. He established the Purcell Operatic Society and was a founder of the Plainsong and Medieval Society and what later became the Royal Society of Church Music. Author of The Principles of English Church Music Composition (1921), Shaw was a notable reformer of English church music. He worked with Percy Dearmer (his rector at St. Mary's in Primrose Hill); Ralph Vaughan Williams, and his brother Geoffrey Shaw in publishing hymnals such as Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). A leader in the revival of English opera and folk music scholarship, Shaw composed some one hundred songs as well as anthems and service music; some of his best hymn tunes were published in his Additional Tunes in Use at St. Mary's (1915). Bert Polman

Johann Friedrich Doles

1715 - 1797 Person Name: J. F. Doles Composer or Adapter of "DA CHRISTUS GEBOREN WAR" in The Book of Common Praise Born: Ap­ril 23, 1715, Stein­bach-Hall­en­berg, Thu­rin­gia. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 8, 1797, Leip­zig, Ger­ma­ny. Doles is re­mem­bered as a com­pos­er of cham­ber and sac­red mu­sic. While a stu­dent at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Leip­zig, he di­rect­ed the ci­ty’s Gross­es Kon­zert (lat­er known as the Ge­wand­haus Or­ches­tra). He served as as­sist­ant or­gan­ist at the Gym­na­si­um in Schmal­kal­den, and can­tor in Frei­berg (1744) and at the Thomas­kirche in Leip­zig (1755). --www.hymntime.com/tch

R. K. Tuck

Author of "Loving Savior, Thou didst come"

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