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Frans Michael Franzén

1772 - 1847 Person Name: Franz Mikael Franzen, 1772-1847 Author of "Prepare the Royal Highway" in Lutheran Book of Worship Franzén, Franz Michael, was born at Uleabôrg, Finland, in 1772, and educated at the University of Abo, where he became Librarian and Professor of Literary History. He was subsequently Minister at Kumla, Orebro, Sweden, and then of Santa Clara, in Stockholm. He was consecrated Bishop of Hernosand, in 1841, and died there in 1847. (See Supplement to Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe.) Of his pieces one is in English common use. It begins "Jesum haf i ständigt minne," translated by Mrs. Charles in her Christian Life in Song, 1858, p. 250, as "Jesus in Thy memory keep" (Looking unto Jesus). Usually it begins with stanza ii., "Look to Jesus, till, reviving." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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Kermit Moldenhauer

b. 1949 Person Name: Kermit Moldenhauer, b. 1949 Arranger of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Christian Worship (2008)
Kermit Moldenhauer

Philip M. Young

b. 1937 Person Name: Phillip M. Young Translator of "Prepare the Royal Highway" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal
Philip M. Young

David W. Music

b. 1949 Harmonizer of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal David W. Music is Professor of Church Music at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2002. Music is the author of William J. Reynolds: Church Musician (2013), Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography (2001), Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents (1998), and Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings (1996). He has co-authored or edited four other books, as well as publishing editions of A Selection of Shape-Note Folk Hymns for A-R Editions' Recent Researches in American Music series (2005), John Weldon's opera The Judgment of Paris for the Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era series (1999), and Oliver Holden (1765-1844): Selected Works in the Music of the New American Nation series (Garland, 1998). He served as Editor of The Hymn (the journal of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, 1990-96), as Chair of the New Materials Subcommittee for The Baptist Hymnal (1991), and as chair of the text and tunes committee and one of the editors of Celebrating Grace (2010). He is a member of the Society for American Music; the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada; the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and the Baptist Church Music Conference, which he served as President (2001-02) and Educational Division Vice-President (1992-1994). --See Baylor University bio (03 July 2014).
David W. Music

Henry V. Gerike

Person Name: Henry V. Gerike, b. 1948 Arranger of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Lutheran Service Book Henry V. Gerike arranged the tune: LAND OF REST in Lutheran Service Book, 2006, #937
Henry V. Gerike

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