50 Favorites #41
Tune Title: CLEANSING WAVE First Line: Oh, now I see the crimson wave! Composer: Phoebe P. Knapp Incipit: 13531 61166 55321 Key: E♭ Major Date: 2013
50 Favorites #41

As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today.
Bert Polman Go to person page >| Title: | [O now I see the crimson wave] |
| Composer: | Phoebe Palmer Knapp |
| Meter: | 8.6.8.6 with refrain |
| Incipit: | 13531 61166 55321 |
| Key: | E♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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