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The Sunday School Chorister
Publication Date: 1891 Publisher: The Young Churchman Co. Publication Place: Milwaukee, Wisc. Editors: The Young Churchman Co.
The Sunday School Chorister
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Appears in 230 hymnals Used With Tune: WINCHESTER NEW
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Hark! the herald angels sing
Appears in 1,329 hymnals Used With Tune: MENDELSSOHN
Hark! the herald angels sing
The Child Jesus
Appears in 408 hymnals First Line: Once in royal David's city Used With Tune: [Once in royal David's city]
The Child Jesus
O Land of Judea
Author: Rev. R. W. Lowrie, D.D. Hymnal: SSCS1891 #a1 (1891) First Line: O, land of Judea, O blue Galilee Languages: English Tune Title: [O, land of Judea, O blue Galilee]
O Land of Judea
Jesu, Our Saviour
Hymnal: SSCS1891 #a2 (1891) First Line: Jesu, our Saviour all glorious Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesu, our Saviour all glorious]
Jesu, Our Saviour
See Amid the Winter's Snow
Hymnal: SSCS1891 #a3 (1891) Refrain First Line: Hail, thou ever-blessed morn Languages: English Tune Title: [See amid the winter's snow]
See Amid the Winter's Snow
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Mendelssohn Hymnal Number: 5 Composer of "MENDELSSOHN" in The Sunday School Chorister Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
John Bacchus Dykes
1823 - 1876 Person Name: Rev. J. B. Dykes, D.D. Hymnal Number: 39 Composer of "S. CUTHBERT" in The Sunday School Chorister As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern.
Bert Polman
John Bacchus Dykes
Henry Thomas Smart
1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Hymnal Number: 71 Composer of "HOPKINS" in The Sunday School Chorister Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known).
Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861).
Bert Polman
Henry Thomas Smart
