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[What a happy meeting when the saints shall come]

[What a happy meeting when the saints shall come]

Composer: Samuel W. Beazley
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Samuel W. Beazley

Samuel W. Beazley was born in Sparta, Virginia in 1873. He was a music scholar and taught music at Shenandoah College for five years. He composed over 4,000 gospel songs during his lifetime. Samuel W. Beazley maintained a successful publishing business in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Chicago on September 16, 1944. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1992. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.gmahalloffame.org Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [What a happy meeting when the saints shall come]
Composer: Samuel W. Beazley
Meter: 11.9.11.9 with refrain
Incipit: 13556 53511 17655
Key: D♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Glorious Theme #35

Text

The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 #960

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