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Funeral Hymns and Songs #27
Tune Title: [There'll be music in heav'n, we're told] First Line: There'll be music in heav'n, we're told Composer: Will L. Thompson Date: 1924
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[There'll be music in heaven, we're told]
[There'll be music in heaven, we're told]
Composer: Will L. ThompsonPublished in 4 hymnals
Audio files: MIDI
Composer: Will L. Thompson
Will Lamartine Thompson (1847-1909)
Born: November 7, 1847, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Died: September 20, 1909, New York, New York.
Buried: Riverview Cemetery, East Liverpool, Ohio.
Rebuffed in an early attempt to sell his songs to a commercial publisher, Thompson started his own publishing company. He later expanded, opening a store to sell pianos, organs and sheet music. Both a lyricist and composer, he ensured he would always remember words or melodies that came to him at odd times:
"No matter where I am, at home or hotel, at the store or traveling, if an idea or theme comes to me that I deem worthy of a song, I jot it down in verse. In this… Go to person page >Instances
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Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #33
Tune Title: [There’ll be music in heav'n, we’re told] First Line: There'll be music in heav'n, we're told Composer: Will L. Thompson Date: 1922
Rodeheaver's Gospel Songs for church, Sunday Schools and evangelistic services #33
The Christian Church Hymnal #401
Tune Title: [There'll be music in heav'n we're told] First Line: There'll be music in heav'n we're told Composer: Will L. Thompson Date: 1906
The Christian Church Hymnal #401
The New Century Hymnal #115
Tune Title: [There'll be music in heaven, we're told] First Line: There'll be music in heaven, we're told Composer: Will L. Thompson Date: 1904
The New Century Hymnal #115
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