[How blest are the sorrowful]

[How blest are the sorrowful]

Composer: Jan Bender
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Composer: Jan Bender

Bender, Jan Oskar was born on February 3, 1909 in Haarlem, Netherlands. He moved with his mother to Lubeck Germany, to study organ and conducting and theory. He became an organist at St. Gertrude in Lubeck. Jan served in the military during World War II. After the war he served as a visiting professor and organist at Valparaiso University in Indiana, and the University of Denver. In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and settled in Seward, Nebraska, where he was a teacher. He also taught at Concordia Teachers College and Wittenberg University in Springfield Ohio. In 1976 he retired to Hanerau, Germany. In 1979 he served as visiting professor at Valparaiso University, in 1979-1981 at Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter Minnesota,… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [How blest are the sorrowful]
Composer: Jan Bender
Incipit: 12123 44436 61164
Key: C Major
Source: Contemporary Worship 5 Services of the Word, 1972
Copyright: © 1972 Lutheran Church in America, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada, and The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

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Lutheran Book of Worship #17

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