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Jesus, great Redeemer

Author: Ada Cambridge Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: [Jesus, great Redeemer]

PANIS CELESTIS

Appears in 33 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Calkin Incipit: 51765 64536 23216 Used With Text: Jesu, great Redeemer, source of Life Divine

[Jesus, great Redeemer]

Appears in 53 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley Incipit: 56714 33512 32345 Used With Text: Jesus, great Redeemer

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Jesu, great Redeemer, source of Life Divine

Author: Ada Cross Hymnal: Worship Song #718 (1905) Topics: The Lord's Supper Languages: English Tune Title: PANIS CELESTIS

Jesus, great Redeemer

Author: Ada Cambridge Hymnal: The Spirit of Praise #88 (1882) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus, great Redeemer]

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin Composer of "PANIS CELESTIS" in Worship Song John Baptiste Calkin United Kingdom 1827-1905. Born in London, he was reared in a musical atmosphere. Studying music under his father, and with three brothers, he became a composer, organist, and music teacher. At 19, he was appointed organist, precenter, and choirmaster at St. Columbia's College, Dublin, Ireland, 1846 to 1853. From 1853 to 1863 we was organist and choirmaster at Woburn Chapel, London. From 1863 to 1868, he was organist of Camden Road Chapel. From 1870 to 1884 he was organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at Guildhall School of Music and concentrated on teaching and composing. He was also a professor of music and on the council of Trinity College, London, and a member of the Philharmonic Society (1862). In 1893 he was a fellow of the College of Organists. John and wife, Victoire, had four sons, each following a musical carer. He wrote much music for organ and scored string arrangements, sonatas, duos, etc. He died at Hornsey Rise Gardens. John Perry

Herbert Stanley Oakeley

1830 - 1903 Person Name: Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley Composer of "[Jesus, great Redeemer]" in The Spirit of Praise

Ada Cambridge

1844 - 1926 Person Name: Ada Cross Author of "Jesu, great Redeemer, source of Life Divine" in Worship Song Cross, Ada, née Cambridge, daughter of Henry Cambridge, born at St. Germaine, Norfolk, Nov. 21, 1844, and married, in 1869, to George Frederick Cross, who, in 1870, took Holy Orders as a curate in England, and subsequently, after holding various curacies in Australia, became, in 1877, Incumbent of Coleraine, in the diocese of Ballarat. Her works include Hymns on the Holy Communion, 1866; Hymns on the Litany, 1865, &c.; and she has also contributed to Lays of the Pious Minstrels, 1862; English Lyrics, &c.; and published a prose story, "The Two Surplices,” 1865, and tales in various magazines. Her hymns have attained to some popularity, and are characterized by great sweetness and purity of rhythm, combined with naturalness and simplicity. The best known are:— 1. Humbly now with deep contrition. 1865. Lent. 2. Jesus, Great Redeemer. 1866. Holy Communion. 3. Light of the world, O shine on us. 1865. Domestic Worship. 4. Saviour, by [to] Thy sweet compassion. Lent. 5. The dawn of God's dear Sabbath, 1866. Sunday Morning. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)