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Person Name: Desconocido Author of "Sólo a Ti, Dios y Señor" in Culto Cristiano 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.
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George Kingsley
1811 - 1884 Person Name: G. Kingsley Arranger of "MESSIAH" in Himnario provisional con los cánticos Born: July 7, 1811, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Died: March 14, 1884, Northampton, Massachusetts.
Kingsley played the organ at the Old South Church and Hollis Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. He also taught music at Girard College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, served as music supervisor for public schools in Philadelphia, and compiled a number of music books, including:
Sunday School Singing Book, 1832
The Harmonist, 1833
The Social Choir, 1836
The Sacred Choir, 1838
The Harp of David, 1844
The Young Ladies’ Harp, 1847
Templi Carmina (Northampton, Massachusetts: 1853)
The Juvenile Choir, 1865
--www.hymntime.com/tch
George Kingsley
Henry Carey
1687 - 1743 Composer of "[Solo a ti, Dios y Señor]" in El Nuevo Himnario Popular (Edicion Revisada y Corregida) Henry Carey, b. 1685 (?); d. London, 1743
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Henry Carey
William Henry Monk
1823 - 1889 Person Name: William H. Monk, 1823-1889 Composer of "ASCENSION" in Cántico Nuevo 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
William Henry Monk
Robert Williams
1782 - 1818 Person Name: Robert Williams, 1781-1821 Composer of "LLANFAIR" in Culto Cristiano Robert Williams United Kingdom 1782-1818. Born at Mynydd Ithel, Anglesey, Wales, blind from birth, he became a basket weaver. He had great innate musical ability. Although blind, he could write out a tune after hearing it just once. He sang hymns at public occasions. No information found regarding family. He died at Mynydd Ithel, Anglesey, Wales.
John Perry
Robert Williams
Pedro Castro
1840 - 1887 Person Name: Pedro Castro Author of "Sólo a Ti, Dios y Señor" in Himnario Bautista Pedro Castro Iriarte was converted to Christianity while he was a young man working for a printing company in Madrid. He then served as a pastor, organizing churches in Valladolid and Madrid. He was also a prolific writer of prose, poetry, and children's stories. He also translated many hymns.
Dianne Shapiro from Celebremos su Gloria (Colombia/Illinois: Libros Alianza/Celebration), 1992
Pedro Castro
John Worgan
1724 - 1790 Person Name: J. Worgan Composer of "EASTER HYMN" in El Himnario Evangelico
John Worgan
Thomas B. Southgate
1814 - 1868 Person Name: T. R. Southgate Composer of "VISPERAS" in El Himnario para el uso de las Iglesias Evangelicas de Habla Espanola en Todo el Mundo Southgate, Thomas Bishop, born at Hornsey, Middlesex, June 8, 1814; educated in the school of the Chapel Royal, where he was a chorister; studied harmony under Thomas Attwood and Sir John Goss, and the organ under Samuel Wesley; organist of Hornsey Church from 1834 to 1853, and of St Anne's, Highgate Rise, London, from the latter year until his death, which occured at Highgate, November 3, 1868.
EVENSONG, No. 320 F.C.H., was published in sheet form in 1858, set to the words "God that madest earth and heaven."
--James Love, Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources (1891)
Thomas B. Southgate
