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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn Composer of "TRUST" in The Cyber 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
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Milton S. Littlefield
1864 - 1934 Author of "Come, O Lord, like morning sunlight" in Christian Worship and Praise Born: August 21, 1864, New York City.
Died: June 12, 1934, Corona, Long Island, New York.
Littlefield attended Johns Hopkins University and the Union Theological Seminary, and was ordained a Presbyterian minister. His works include:
Hymns of Worship and Service for the Sunday School
The School Hymnal, 1921
Hymnal for Young People, 1927
Hymns of the Christian Life (New York: A. S. Barnes and Company, posthumously printed in 1937)
Sources:
Erickson, p. 336
Hughes, pp. 473-74
McCutchan, p. 58
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Milton S. Littlefield
