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LIFT THINE EYES

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mendelssohn Incipit: 55513 21611 17566 Used With Text: Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains

Lift Thine Eyes

Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Lift Thine eyes, O lift Thine eyes unto the mountain Used With Tune: [Lift Thine eyes, O lift Thine eyes unto the mountain]

Instances

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Hymnal: The Children's Hymnal #257 (1918) First Line: Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains Languages: English Tune Title: [Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains]

Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains

Hymnal: The School Hymnary #184 (1889) Languages: English Tune Title: LIFT THINE EYES

Lift Thine Eyes

Hymnal: Songs for Children #144 (1916) First Line: Lift Thine eyes, O lift Thine eyes unto the mountain Languages: English Tune Title: [Lift Thine eyes, O lift Thine eyes unto the mountain]

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

1809 - 1847 Composer of "[Lift thine eyes, O lift thine eyes to the mountains]" in The Children's Hymnal Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman