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John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: J. B. Dykes Composer of "GLEBE FIELD" in The Church Hymnal As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

Winfred Douglas

1867 - 1944 Harmonizer of "LEW TRENCHARD" in The Hymnal Charles Winfred Douglas (b. Oswego, NY, 1867; d. Santa Rosa, CA, 1944), an influential leader in Episcopalian liturgical and musical life. Educated at Syracuse University and St. Andrews Divinity School, Syracuse, New York, he moved to Colorado for his health. There he studied at St. Matthew's Hall, Denver, and founded the Mission of the Transfiguration in Evergreen (1897). Ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1899, he also studied in France, Germany and England, where he spent time with the Benedictines of Solesmes on the Island of Wight from 1903 to 1906. For much of his life, Douglas served as director of music at the Community of St. Mary in Peekskill, New York, and had associations with cathedrals in Denver, Colorado, and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He promoted chanting and plainsong in the Episcopal Church through workshops and publications such as The American Psalter (1929), the Plainsong Psalter (1932), and the Monastic Diurnal (1932). His writings include program notes for the Denver Symphony Orchestra, various hymn preludes; organ, as well as the book, Church Music in History and Practice (1937). He was editor of both the Hymnal 1916 and its significant successor, Hymnal 1940, of the Episcopal Church. Douglas's other achievements include a thorough knowledge of the life and culture of Hopi and Navajo natives, among whom he lived for a number of years. Bert Polman

John Baptiste Calkin

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. W. Calkin Composer of "MUNUS" in The Book of Praise for Sunday Schools 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

Georg Christoph Strattner

1644 - 1704 Composer of "POSEN" in The Cyber Hymnal Georg Christoph Strattner; b. about 1650, in Hungary; d. 1704-5 in Weimar Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Henry Coppee

1821 - 1895 Person Name: Henry Coppée Author of "Safe upon the billowy deep" 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 Born: October 13, 1821, Savannah, Georgia. Died: March 22, 1895, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Buried: Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Coppee attended Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, for two years, worked as a civil engineer, and graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1845. He served in the Mexican-American War as a lieutenant, and was made a brevet captain for gallantry in the Battles of Contreras and Churubusco. He went on to serve as a professor of English at West Point (1850-55), and professor of English literature and history at the University of Pennsylvania (1855-66). His works include: Elements of Logic (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E. H. Butler & Company, 1858) A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E. H. Butler & Company, 1859) A Gallery of Distinguished English and American Female Poets (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E. H. Butler & Company, 1860) A translation of Marmont’s Esprit des Institutions Militaires, 1862 Field Manual of Courts-Martial (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1863) The Field Manual for Battalion Drill (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott, 1864) Grant and His Campaigns: A Military Biography (New York, C. B. Richardson, 1866) Songs of Praise and Poems of Devotion in the Christian Centuries (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: E. H. Butler & Company, 1866) Life and Services of Gen. U. S. Grant (New York: Richardson and Company, 1868) English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Claxton, Remson & Haffelfinger, 1873) Golden Wedding of Hon. and Mrs. Asa Packer, 1878 History of the Civil War in America, by the Comte de Paris (editor) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. H. Coates & Company, 1875-88) History of the Conquest of Spain by the Arab-Moors (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown, 1892) General Thomas (New York: D. Appleton, 1897) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Edwin H. Lemare

1865 - 1934 Person Name: E. H. Lemare Composer of "HAVEN" in The Church Hymnal Born: September 9, 1865, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England. Died: September 24, 1934, Hollywood, California. Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California. Lemare received the Goss scholarship at the British Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in 1878, and went on to became a fellow of the RAM and the Royal College of Organists. He played the organ at St. John the Evangelist’s, Brownswood Park; St. Andrew’s Church, and Public Hall, Cardiff, Wales; the Parish Church, Sheffield (1886); Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street; and St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster. He made a recital tour of Canada and America in 1900, and also toured Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, where he helped design organs for the Auckland Town Hall. He played the organ at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1902-15), gave recitals at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, and was municipal organist in San Francisco (1917-21) and Portland, Maine (1921). Sources: Colles, Volume II, p. 135 --www.hymntime.com/tch