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Gem Fitch

b. 1934 Person Name: Gem Fitch (1934- ) Scripture: Genesis 2:1-3 Author of "Santo sábado, bendito" in Himnario Adventista del Séptimo Día

1911 - 1984 Person Name: William Fitch, 1911-1982 Scripture: Genesis 17:9 Author of "O King Eternal, Sovereign Lord" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Fitch, William. (Falkirk, Scotland, July 10, 1911-March 23, 1984, Toronto, Canada [Glasgow Herald]). Presbyterian. University of Glasgow, M.A., 1932; B.D., 1935; Ph.D., 1943. Pastorates at Newmilnes, 1936-1943; Glasgow, 1943-1955; Toronto, Ontario, 1955-1972. From 1972, director of the Church Renewal Foundation, and evangelist-at-large, for the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Author of some twenty books of Biblical exposition on great themes. He was chairman of the committee which prepared the Book of Praise (1972), to which he contributed one hymn. --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives

Fred A. Fillmore

1856 - 1925 Scripture: Job 19:25 Author of "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" in Great Songs of the Church (Revised) Born: May 15, 1856, Paris, Illinois. Died: November 15, 1925, Terrace Park, Ohio. Buried: Milford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much interchangeably, and many older churches of Christ which are faithful today were once known as "Christian Churches." Fred and his older brother James took over their father's publishing business following the death of Augustus in 1870 and established the Fillmore Brothers Music House. This became a successful Cincinnati music form, publishing church hymnals and later band and orchestral music. For many years the firm issued a monthly periodical, The Music Messenger. The brothers edited many hymnbooks and produced many songs which became popular. Beginning with the songbook Songs of Glory in 1874, there appeared many Fillmore publications which became widely used through churches, especially in the midwest. For these collections, Fred provided a great deal of hymn tunes. --launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/hymnoftheday

David Finstrom

Person Name: D. E. Finstrom Scripture: Psalm 23 Author of "Mi Pastor" in Himnos de Gloria

Ben Fielding

Scripture: Psalm 24:8 Author of "Mighty to Save" in Lift Up Your Hearts

G. W. Fields

Scripture: Psalm 33:1-3 Composer of "[Our Shepherd is the Savior true]" in Pearls of Praise

James Fitch

Scripture: Psalm 40:2-3 Author of "He Took Me Out of the Pit" in Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) Early 20th Century

Birdie Lee Fitzgerald

Scripture: Psalm 46:1 Author of "A Refuge for Thee" in Dortch's Gospel Voices

W. G. Fischer

1835 - 1912 Person Name: William G. Fischer Scripture: Psalm 51:7 Composer of "FISCHER" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs. Bert Polman

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Scripture: Psalm 89:1-8 Versifier (st. 1) of "I Will Sing of the Mercies of the LORD" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Pablo Filós

b. 1920 Scripture: Psalm 92:1 tr. al castellano of "Santo Dios, Te Damos Loor" in Himnario Bautista See Adolfo Robleto.

Bob Fitts

Person Name: Bob Fitts, b. 1955 Scripture: Psalm 97 Author of "Psalm 97: Blessed Be the Lord" in Sing! A New Creation

Bobby Fisher

b. 1952 Person Name: Bobby Fisher, b. 1952 Scripture: Psalm 100 Author of "All the Earth, Proclaim God's Glory" in Gather Comprehensive

Wolfgang Figulus

1525 - 1589 Scripture: Psalm 101:1 Composer of "HELFT MIR GOTT'S GÜTE" in The Lutheran Hymnal Wolfgang Figulus (Composer, Thomaskantor) Born: 1520 ? or c1525 - Naumburg (Riemann says Lübben), Germany Died: c1591 or c1588 - Meissen, Germany Wolfgang Figulus) [“Figulus" (Latin) = “Töpfer” (real German family name) “potter”] was Kantor of Thomaskirche in Leipzig from 1549 to 1551, then of the Princess-school in Meissen from 1551 to 1588, when he was pensioned. His son-in-law, F. Birck, became his deputy until 1591, probably the year of his death. Wolfgang Figulus composed Precatations (1553), cantiones sacrae for 4-8 voices (1575), and published collections of songs: Amores Filii dei (4 voices), 2 books of Christmas songs, hymns with figued bass (1594 and 1605), and Elementa musica (1550; several later editions). Source: Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1952 Edition) Contributed by Aryeh Oron (December 2005) --www.bach-cantatas.com/

Paul Field

Scripture: Psalm 116:11 Author of "I Will Hide Your Word Inside My Heart" in Lift Up Your Hearts

E. Finch

Scripture: Psalm 118:14-26 Composer of "[The Lord is my strength and song]" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

Jacques Fischer

Scripture: Psalm 136:6 Translator (French) of "God, who made the stars of heaven" in Agape

John Fischer

b. 1947 Scripture: Isaiah 33:17 Author of "Have You Seen Jesus My Lord" in Sing Praises

David Fines

b. 1957 Person Name: David Fines, 1957- Scripture: Isaiah 43:1 Translator (French) of "I Have Called You by Your Name" in Community of Christ Sings

Scott M. Finch

Scripture: Isaiah 58:13 Author of "Praise God for Joy of Sabbath Blest" in Trinity Psalter Hymnal

Hermann Fick

1822 - 1885 Person Name: Hermann Fick, d. 1885 Scripture: Isaiah 60:1 Author of "Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations" in The Lutheran Hymnal Carl Johann Hermann Fick (February 2, 1822–April 30, 1885) was a Lutheran pastor. He wrote the hymn “Gehe auf, du Trost der Heiden” (“Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations”). He was pastor at St. Paul's Church in New Melle, Missouri, 1847, Bremen, Missouri, 1850, Detroit, Michigan, 1854, Collinsville, Illinois, 1859, and Boston, Massachusetts, 1872. Rev. Hermann Flick became the first permanent pastor three years later in 1847. Flick was from German Hanover and has studied at Goettingen before immigrating to America in 1846. Although he eventually moved on from him role as Pastor of St. Paul's to join other congregations in other cities, included St. Louis, Detroit and Boston and he later become known in the Lutheran community for his poetry, writing as well as authorship of the hymn "Gehe auf, du Trost der Heiden" (English: "Rise, Thou Light of Gentile Nations"). He also wrote Das Lutherbuch oder leben und thaten des theuren Mannes Gottes, Dr. Martin Luther which would become a basic test in Lutheran schools across the country. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Ralph Finn

b. 1941 Person Name: Ralph Finn, b. 1941 Scripture: Matthew 9:11-13 Author of "The Master Came to Bring Good News" in Gather Comprehensive

S. L. Findlater

1823 - 1907 Person Name: Sarah B. Findlater Scripture: Matthew 25:1-13 Translator of "Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Sarah Laurie Borthwick Findlater United Kingdom 1823-1907. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, sister of Jane Laurie Borthwick, she married Erick John Findlater, a pastor in the Free Church of Scotland at Lochearnhead, Perthshire, and they had three daughters: Sarah Jemima, Mary Williamina, and Jane Helen. Findlater and her sister Jane's translations were collected in “German hymns from the land of Luther”, appearing in four volumes (1854-1862). As an author, Sarah wrote fiction, juvenile works, music scores, anthems, and musical parts. She died at Torquay, Devon, England. John Perry

Stephen Fischbacher

b. 1960 Person Name: Stephen Fischbacher (b. 1960) Scripture: Matthew 28:20 Author of "Jesus, he's always there" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)

Adrian Vernon Fish

b. 1956 Scripture: Mark 7:37 Arranger of "ROYAL OAK" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Charles M. Fillmore

1860 - 1952 Person Name: C. M. F. Scripture: Luke 9:23 Author of "Following Him" in Timeless Truths Charles Millard Fillmore, 1860-1952 Born: July 15, 1860, Paris, Illinois. Died: September 17, 1952, Indianapolis, Indiana. Fillmore won a music scholarship at the Cincinnati College of Music, then taught for a year at Bath Seminary in Owingsville, Kentucky. He then traveled for about a year and taught singing classes in various parts of America. He then went for additional music studies in Cincinnati, Ohio. He studied for the ministry at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, graduating in 1890. He pastored in Lafayette, Indiana; Shelbyville, Indiana; was "State Evangelist" (for one year) in Ogden, Utah; Peru, Indiana; Carthage, Ohio; and Hillside Church, Indianapolis, Indiana. He was one of the editors of the temperance paper Clean Politics, and of The Musical Messenger. He wrote several hundred Gospel songs in his lifetime. --www.hymntime.com/tch

Joseph C. Fisher

Scripture: Luke 15:18 Author of "The Prodigal's Return" in Timeless Truths

George F. Fickert

1758 - 1815 Person Name: Georg F. Fickert Scripture: Luke 24:32 Author of "El Fuego Santo" in Himnario Bautista

Eleazar Thompson Fitch

1791 - 1871 Person Name: Eleazar T. Fitch Scripture: Luke 24:36 Author of "Lord, at this closing hour" in Hymns and Tunes Fitch, Eleazar Thompson, D.D. Born at New Haven, Jan. 1, 1791, and graduated at Yale College, 1810. In 1817 he was appointed Professor of Divinity in Yale, and retained the Professorship to 1863. Died Jan. 31, 1871. His published works include Sermons, &c. With Dr. Bacon and others he compiled the Connecticut Congregational Psalms & Hymns, 1845, and contributed to it 3 psalm versions and 3 hymns. Of these the following are in use: (1) "Lord, at this closing hour." (Close of Divine Service. ) This is extensively used in America, and is also found in the English Presbyterian Psalms & Hymns, 1867. (2) "The God of Peace, Who from the dead." (Close of Divine Service.) (3) "By vows of love together bound." (Holy Matrimony.) [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Felicia Fina

Scripture: John 13:3-15 Translator of "Jesu, Jesu (Jesús, Jesús)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Gerard Fitzpatrick

Scripture: John 13:5-14 Author of "In the upper room (You must do for others)" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Dennis Fitzpatrick

Scripture: John 13:14-17 Arranger of "ST. BRENDAN'S" in Lift Up Your Hearts Dennis Fitzpatrick was one of the first advocates for the folk mass in the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican II. He founded the publishing company Friends of the English Liturgy or FEL. After a long court battle over copyright issues related to the folk mass, he retired from the publishing world. Laura de Jong

Birdie E. Fink

Person Name: B. E. F. Scripture: John 14:6 Author of "Only One Narrow Way" in Timeless Truths

Rosemary Fishburn

1928 - 2002 Person Name: Rosemary Fishburn, 1928-2002 Scripture: John 16:12-14 Translator (Spanish) of "We Limit Not the Truth of God" in Community of Christ Sings

Kenneth G. Finlay

1882 - 1974 Person Name: Kenneth Finlay, 1882-1974 Scripture: Acts 2:1-4 Composer of "FINNART" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Mia Fieldes

Scripture: Romans 6:5-14 Author of "Christ Is Risen" in Voices Together Mia Fieldes is a songwriter from Sydney, Australia. She was involved with the worship team at Hillsong Church and recorded with Hillsong United and Hillsong Live. She now lives in Nashville and is worship leader at The Belonging Co. Dianne Shapiro, from www.miafieldesmusic.com/about-mia, accessed 3/10/2017

Donald Fishel

b. 1950 Scripture: Romans 6:6 Author of "Alleluia, Alleluia! Give Thanks" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)

Harry J. Fielding

b. 1946 Person Name: Harry J. Fielding, 1946- Scripture: Romans 12:1-2 Author of "My Savior Said That I Should Be" in Community of Christ Sings From New Zealand; a member of the Community of Christ.

Eberhard L. Fischer

1695 - 1773 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:1 Author of "Lord Jesus, Who Art come" in The Lutheran Hymnal

C. Fisher

Person Name: Fisher Scripture: 1 Corinthians 5 Composer of "[Christ our passover is sacrificed for us]" in Voices of Praise

Friedrich Filitz

1804 - 1876 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13 Composer of "CAPETOWN" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Friedrich Filitz PhD Germany 1804-1876. Born at Arnstadt. Thuringia, he was a German composer and musicologist. He collected church music. He also studied philosophy. In 1833 he worked in Berlin as a music critic and at other employment. He was also a music historian. With Ludwig Erck, he published a collection of 15th & 17th Century chorales in 1845. He moved to Munich and published a chorale book in 1847. His legacy of vauable church music was donated to the Bavarian State Library, where it has made many forgotten works available once again. He died in Bonn, Germany. John Perry

Powell G. Fithian

b. 1861 Scripture: Galatians 2:20 Composer of "[There’s no love to me like the love of Jesus]" in Alexander's New Revival Hymns Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey. Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include: Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899) Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900) Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901) Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902) The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1915) --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Warren R. Fitch

1836 - 1917 Person Name: W. R. Fitch Scripture: Galatians 6:7-10 Author of "The Bread That Giveth Strength" in Hymns of the Saints Born: December 1, 1836, Rodman, New York. Died: February 28, 1917, Lowville, New York. A Methodist Episcopal minister, Fitch ran general stores in Morristown and Briar Hill, New York. He served as Justice of the Peace, Town Supervisor, and Postmaster at Brier Hill, and as treasurer of the Thousand Island Park Association. He also edited the Lowville Times, and wrote religious and other poetry. --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Gottfried W. Fink

1783 - 1846 Scripture: Ephesians 1:4 Composer of "BETHLEHEM" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Rv Gottfried Wilhelm Fink PhD Germany 1783-1846. Born at Sulza, Thuringa, Germany, he was a German composer, music theorist, poet, and a protestant clergyman. From 1804-1808 he studied at the University of Leipzig, where he joined the Corps Lusatia, where he made his first attempts at composition and poetry. In 1811 he was appointed Vicar in Leipzig for some years, where he also founded an educational institution, leading it until 1829. Around 1800 he worked for the “Allgemeine musikalische Zeitschrift” (General musical mazazine). In 1827 he became the magazine's editor-in-chief for 15 years. From 1838 he was a lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1841 he became a Privatdozent of musicology at the university. That year he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin, and a year later was appointed university Music Director. He was highly esteemed throughout his life as a music theorist and composer, receiving numberous honors and awards, both at home and abroad. The Faculty of Philosophy at Leipzig University awarded him an honorary doctorate. He wrote mostly Songs and ballads and collected songs as well. He authored important words on music theory and history, but was best known as editor of the “Musikalischer Hausschatz der Germans”, a collection of about 1000 songs and chants, as well as the “Deutsche Liedertafel” (German song board), a collection of polyphonic songs sung by men. He died at Leipzig, Saxony. John Perry

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