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E. J. Hopkins
1818 - 1901 Composer of "TRIBUTE" in The Church Hymnal Dr Edward John Hopkins MusDoc United Kingdom 1818-1901. Born at Westminster, England, the son of a clarinetist with the Royal Opera House orchestra, he became an organist (as did two of his brothers) and a composer. In 1826 he became a chorister of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King William IV in Westminster Abbey. He also sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a double schedule requiring skill and dexterity. On Sunday evenings he would play the outgoing voluntary at St. Martin’s in-the-field. He left Chapel Royal in 1834 and started studying organ construction at two organ factories. He took an appointment at Mitcham Church as organist at age 16, winning an audition against other organists. Four years later he became organist at the Church of St. Peter, Islington. In 1841 he became organist at St. Luke’s, Berwick St., Soho. Two Years later he was organist at Temple Church, which had a historic organ (built in 1683). He held this position for 55 years. In 1845 he married Sarah Lovett, and they had four sons and five daughters. He was closely associated with the Bach Society and was organist for the first English performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In 1855 he collaborated with Edward Rimbault publishing “The organ, its history and construction” (3 editions 1855-70-77). In 1864 he was one of the founders of the “College of organists”. In 1882 he received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He composed 30+ hymn tunes and some psalm chants, used by the Church of England. He died in London, England.
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E. J. Hopkins
Peter Ritter
1760 - 1846 Person Name: Peter Ritter (17601846) Composer of "LAUDAMUS" in Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes Peter Ritter; b. 1760, Mannheim; d. 1846
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Peter Ritter
Clarence A. Walworth
1820 - 1900 Person Name: Rev. Clarence Augustus Walworth (1820- ) Author of "Hark, the loud celestial hymn" in Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes Walworth, Clarence Alphonsus, born in 1820, graduated at Union College, 1838, admitted to the Bar 1841, studied for the ministry of Protestant Episcopal Church, but subsequently was ordained as a priest of the Roman Catholic communion, and became Rector of St. Mary's, Albany, in 1864. He was one of the founders of the Order of the Paulists in the U.S.A. He published The Gentle Skeptic, N.Y., 1863, and Andiatoroctè, or the Eve of Lady Day, &c, N.Y., 1888. His paraphrase of the Te Deum, "Holy God, we. praise Thy name," p. 1133, ii. 7, is in the Catholic Psalmist, Dublin, 1858, p. 170. In the American Episcopal Hymnal, 1892, it begins with stanza ii., slightly altered, as "Hark, the loud celestial hymn." He died in 1900. [Rev. L. F. Benson, D.D.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Clarence A. Walworth
J. H. Cornell
1828 - 1894 Person Name: John Henry Cornell (1828- ) Arranger of "LAUDAMUS" in Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes An organist for St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Church, Cornell compiled the Congregational Tune Book in 1872.
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
J. H. Cornell
George F. LeJeune
1841 - 1904 Person Name: Geo. F. LeJeune Composer of "[Hark! the loud celestial hymn]" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 George Fitz-Curwood Le Jeune, 1841-1904
Born: June 18, 1841, London, England.
Died: April 11, 1904, Staten Island, New York.
Buried: Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island, New York.
Le Jeune studied music under Joseph Barnby and George Macfarren in London. In 1863, he moved to Montréal, Canada, where he continued his studies with George Carter. He later moved to America, playing the organ in churches in Hartford, Connecticut, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He became the organist at St. John’s Chapel of Trinity Parish, New York City, in 1876, and also directed the choir there.
Sources:
Hughes, p. 471
--www.hymntime.com/tch
George F. LeJeune
