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Samuel Sebastian Wesley

1810 - 1876 Person Name: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Mus.D. (1810-1876) Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Composer of "EDEN" in The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes Samuel Sebastian Wesley (b. London, England, 1810; d. Gloucester, England, 1876) was an English organist and composer. The grandson of Charles Wesley, he was born in London, and sang in the choir of the Chapel Royal as a boy. He learned composition and organ from his father, Samuel, completed a doctorate in music at Oxford, and composed for piano, organ, and choir. He was organist at Hereford Cathedral (1832-1835), Exeter Cathedral (1835-1842), Leeds Parish Church (1842-1849), Winchester Cathedral (1849-1865), and Gloucester Cathedral (1865-1876). Wesley strove to improve the standards of church music and the status of church musicians; his observations and plans for reform were published as A Few Words on Cathedral Music and the Music System of the Church (1849). He was the musical editor of Charles Kemble's A Selection of Psalms and Hymns (1864) and of the Wellburn Appendix of Original Hymns and Tunes (1875) but is best known as the compiler of The European Psalmist (1872), in which some 130 of the 733 hymn tunes were written by him. Bert Polman

Leonard P. Breedlove

1801 - 1900 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Composer of "HAPPY LAND" in The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) Breedlove served on the 1849-50 committee for the Sacred Harp musical convention. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Author of "There Is a Happy Land" in The Church Hymnal 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.

Andrew Young

1807 - 1889 Person Name: Andrew Young (1807-) Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Author of "There is a happy land, Far, far away" in The Evangelical Hymnal with Tunes Young, Andrew, second son of David Young, for more than fifty years a most efficient teacher in Edinburgh, was born at Edinburgh, April 23, 1807. After passing through a distinguished eight years' literary and theological course at the University of Edinburgh, he was appointed in 1830, by the Town Council, Head Master of Niddry Street School, Edinburgh, where he began with 80 pupils, and left with the total at 600. In 1840 he became Head English Master of Madras College, St. Andrews, where he was equally successful. He retired from St. Andrews in 1853, and lived in Edinburgh, where he was for some time the Superintendent of the Greenside Parish Sabbath School He died Nov. 30, 1889; Many of Mr Young's hymns and poems were contributed to periodicals. A collected edition of these was published in 1876, as The Scottish Highlands and Other Poems. His poems entitle him to rank in the first order of Scottish minor poets. Some of his hymns are very sweet. His "There is a happy land" (q. v.) has attained great popularity. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Frederick C. Maker

1844 - 1927 Person Name: F. C. Maker Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Composer of "BROOMSGROVE" in The Presbyterian Book of Praise Frederick C. Maker (b. Bristol, England, August 6, 1844; d. January 1, 1927) received his early musical training as a chorister at Bristol Cathedral, England. He pursued a career as organist and choirmaster—most of it spent in Methodist and Congregational churches in Bristol. His longest tenure was at Redland Park Congregational Church, where he was organist from 1882-1910. Maker also conducted the Bristol Free Church Choir Association and was a long-time visiting professor of music at Clifton College. He wrote hymn tunes, anthems, and a cantata, Moses in the Bulrushes. Bert Polman

Myles Birket Foster

1851 - 1922 Person Name: M. B. Foster, 1851-1922 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Composer of "CLARION" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Born: November 29, 1851, London, England. Died: December 18, 1922, London, England. Son of an artist, Foster attended Brighton and Guildford Grammar School and entered the stock exchange. He subsequently enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music and played the organ at St. James Church, Marylebone, and St. George’s, Campden Hill. From 1880-92 he was organist at the Foundling Hospital and at Her Majesty’s Theatre, and was choirmaster of St. James, Holborn. He composed children’s cantatas and much church music. His works include: Methodist Free Church Hymns, 1889 (co-editor) Anthems and Anthem Composers (London: Novello and Company, 1901) History of the Philharmonic Society (London: 1913) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

John Downing Farrer

1829 - 1919 Meter: 6.4.6.4.6.7.6.4 Composer of "IVY GATES" Born: Circa February 1829, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. Died: Circa February 1919, Christchurch District, Hampshire, England. Farrer and his wife were living in Lowestoft as of 1881, and Farrer was in Bournemouth in 1901. --www.hymntime.com/tch/