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We gather together to sing the Lord's praises

Author: Omer Westendorf Appears in 2 hymnals

Meter: 12.11.12.11 Appears in 347 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Eduard Kremser, 1838-1914 Tune Sources: Traditional Dutch melody; Nederlandtsch Gedencklanck, Haarlem, 1626 Tune Key: G Major or modal Incipit: 55653 45432 31556 Used With Text: We Gather Together

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We gather together to sing the Lord's praises

Author: Omer Westendorf Hymnal: We Celebrate with Song #d213 (1976)

We Gather Together

Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997 Hymnal: One in Faith #806 (2015) Meter: 12.11.12.11 First Line: We gather together to sing the Lord's praises Topics: Gathering Languages: English Tune Title: KREMSER

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Omer Westendorf

1916 - 1997 Person Name: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997 Author of "We Gather Together" in One in Faith Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one. Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms. Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985. --liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008 =========================== Pseudonyms: Paul Francis Mark Evans J. Clifford Evers --Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.

Eduard Kremser

1838 - 1914 Person Name: Eduard Kremser, 1838-1914 Harmonizer of "KREMSER" in One in Faith Eduard Kremser was born 10 October 1838 in Vienna and died 26 November 1914 in Vienna. He was a choir director, conductor, composer and musicologist. He was the arranger of the music for male voices in Sechs altniederländische Volkslieder, a collection of six Dutch folk songs from Adriaan Valerius' collection Nederlandtsche gedenck-clanck. From this collection comes the tune which is named after him and is sung with the English text "We Gather Together." He also edited and arranged a 3 volume set of German and Austrian folk music: Wiener Lieder und Tänze: im Auftrage der Gemeindevertretimg der Stadt Wien (published 1912-1925) as well as other volumes of folk music. Dianne Shapiro