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[When we work for the Lord]

[When we work for the Lord]

Composer: J. H. Fillmore
Published in 5 hymnals


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: [When we work for the Lord]
Composer: J. H. Fillmore
Incipit: 56713 21176 16555
Copyright: Public Domain

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Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
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Grace and Glory #61

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Joy and Gladness #3

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Songs of Glory No. 2 #91

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Songs of Gratitude #91

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The Christian Sunday School Hymnal #23

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