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When up to nightly skies we gaze

Author: John Sterling Appears in 9 hymnals

WALTHAM

Appears in 548 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Calkin Incipit: 13233 43445 17665 Used With Text: When up to nightly skies we gaze

ALL SAINTS

Appears in 551 hymnals Incipit: 11765 12171 23217 Used With Text: When up to nightly skies we gaze

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When up to nightly skies we gaze

Author: Sterling Hymnal: Sacred Songs For Public Worship #31 (1883) Languages: English Tune Title: ALL SAINTS

When up to nightly skies we gaze

Author: Sterling Hymnal: Sacred Songs For Public Worship #31 (1899) Languages: English Tune Title: ALL SAINTS

When up to nightly skies we gaze

Hymnal: Hymns and Anthems adapted for Jewish Worship #54 (1887) Languages: English

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin Composer of "WALTHAM" 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

John Sterling

1806 - 1844 Person Name: Sterling Author of "When up to nightly skies we gaze" in Sacred Songs For Public Worship Sterling was born at Kames Castle, Bute, July 20, 1806, and died at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Sep. 18, 1844. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907 ================ Sterling, J., p. 1595, ii. (Under "When up to nightly skies," &c.) Another of his hymns which was given in the American Hymns of the Spirit, 1864 and Martineau's Hymns of Praise and Prayer, 1873, No. 31, "0 Source divine and Life of all" (Reverence and Love), has passed into a few modern American collections, including The Pilgrim Hymnal, 1904. It is dated 1840. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)