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[Blessed are they who do His commandments] (Fillmore)

[Blessed are they who do His commandments] (Fillmore)

Composer: J. H. Fillmore
Published in 12 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: J. H. Fillmore

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 Hous… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Blessed are they who do His commandments] (Fillmore)
Composer: J. H. Fillmore
Incipit: 33321 54565 56712
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Sacred Selections for the Church #595

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The Cyber Hymnal #7901

Include 10 pre-1979 instances
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