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Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Arthur S. Sullivan Composer of "LEBBAEUS" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

William Henry Monk

1823 - 1889 Person Name: William Henry Monk, 1823-1889 Composer of "DEATH" in The Cyber Hymnal William H. Monk (b. Brompton, London, England, 1823; d. London, 1889) is best known for his music editing of Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861, 1868; 1875, and 1889 editions). He also adapted music from plainsong and added accompaniments for Introits for Use Throughout the Year, a book issued with that famous hymnal. Beginning in his teenage years, Monk held a number of musical positions. He became choirmaster at King's College in London in 1847 and was organist and choirmaster at St. Matthias, Stoke Newington, from 1852 to 1889, where he was influenced by the Oxford Movement. At St. Matthias, Monk also began daily choral services with the choir leading the congregation in music chosen according to the church year, including psalms chanted to plainsong. He composed over fifty hymn tunes and edited The Scottish Hymnal (1872 edition) and Wordsworth's Hymns for the Holy Year (1862) as well as the periodical Parish Choir (1840-1851). Bert Polman

Anonymous

Author of "God the Father, God the Son" in The Cyber 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.

Thomas Benson Pollock

1836 - 1896 Author of "God the Father, God the Son" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 Pollock, Thomas Benson, M.A., was born in 1836, and graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863, where he also gained the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for English Verse in 1855. Taking Holy Orders in 1861, he was Curate of St. Luke's, Leek, Staffordshire; St. Thomas's, Stamford Hill, London; and St. Alban's, Birmingham. Mr. Pollock is a most successful writer of metrical Litanies. His Metrical Litanies for Special Services and General Use, Mowbray, Oxford, 1870, and other compositions of the same kind contributed subsequently to various collections, have greatly enriched modern hymnbooks. To the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern, Mr. Pollock contributed two hymns, “We are soldiers of Christ, Who is mighty to save" (Soldiers of Christ), and "We have not known Thee as we ought" (Seeking God), but they are by no means equal to his Litanies in beauty and finish. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Pollock, T. B. , 900, i. We note:— 1. God of mercy, loving all. Litany for Quinquagesima. In the Gospeller, 1872. 2. Great Creator, Lord of all. Holy Trinity. In the Gospeller, 1876. 3. Holy Saviour, hear me; on Thy Name I call. Litany of the Contrite. In the Gospeller, 1870. From it "Faithful Shepherd, feed me in the pastures green," is taken. 4. Jesu, in Thy dying woes, p. 678, ii. 36. Given in Thring's Collection, 1882, in 7 parts, was written for the Gos¬peller. 5. My Lord, my Master, at Thy feet adoring. Passiontide. Translation of "Est-ce vous quo je vois, 6 mon Maître adorable!" (text in Moorsom's Historical Comp. to Hymns Ancient & Modern, 1889, p. 266), by Jacques Bridaine, b. 1701, d. 1767. Moorsom says he was born. at Chuselay, near Uzes, in Languedoc, and was a Priest in the French Church. The translation made in 1887 was included in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. 6. We are soldiers of Christ, p. 900, i. In the Gospeller, 1875. 7. Weep not for Him Who onward bears. Passiontide. No. 495 in the 1889 Suppl. Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern is part of a hymn in the Gospeller, 1870. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Robert Prescott Stewart

1825 - 1894 Person Name: Sir R. P. Stewart, 1825-94 Harmonizer of "PILGRIMAGE" in The Book of Common Praise

John H. Gower

1855 - 1922 Composer of "GOWER'S LITANY" in The Book of Common Praise

John Henry Hopkins

1861 - 1945 Composer of "WESTERLY" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 John Henry Hopkins, born in Vermont, he was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1891. He served mostly in the Chicago diocese. He died in Grand Isle, Vermont. Dianne Shapiro from The Great Forty Years: in the Diocese of Chicago A.D. 1893 to 1934 (The Centenary Fund of the Diocese of Chicago, Inc.: 1936 and Find a Grave website (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33095210/john-henry-hopkins) (accessed 5/22/2024)

Claribel

1830 - 1869 Person Name: Charlotte A. Barnard, 1830-69 Composer of "PILGRIMAGE" in The Book of Common Praise Barnard [nee Pye], Charlotte Alington [Claribel]; b. Louth, Lincs., Dec. 23, 1830, d. Dover, Jan. 30, 1869; English ballad composer. --Library of Congress Name Authority Record (see link)

Edmund Hart Turpin

1835 - 1907 Person Name: Edmund H. Turpin Composer of "TURPIN'S LITANY" in The Hymnal Turpin, Edmund Hart, organist; b. Nottingham on 4 May 1835; m. 1st Sarah Anne Watson in 1857; m. 2nd Sarah Hobbs in 1905; d. in London, on 25 Oct. 1907)

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