| Davies, Alan H |
20th-c composer of 3 unnamed tunes for canticles in Psalm Praise (1973); the opening item to a metrical Venite), another to a Te Deum version, and the one featured here, originally set to a newer… |
| Roberts, John Henry |
b ?Mynydd Llandegai, Pen-rallt, Y Gefnan, Caernarvons 1848, d Liverpool 1924. As a boy he worked in Penrhyn slate quarry, Bethesda, and was organist at 14 in a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. A quarry… |
| Filitz, Friedrich |
b Arnstadt, Thuringia, central Germany 1804, d Munich (or Bonn?), Germany 1876. After achieving a doctorate in philosophy he lived in Berlin from 1843 to 1847, when he moved to Munich where he… |
| King, Robert |
b c1660–1675, d c1725. A recorder player, harpsichordist and composer who worked in London at the King’s Playhouse and St Martin’s in the Fields, he served under 5 monarchs as Court Musician… |
| Smith, Isaac |
b c1734, d Walworth, SE London (Surrey), 1805. Possibly a clerk to the Alie Street Meeting House in Goodman’s Fields, E London, where he was reputedly the first dissenting Precentor to receive a… |
| Schütz, Johann Jakob |
b Frankfurt am Main, Germany 1640, d Frankfurt 1690. He studied at Tübingen to become a licentiate in civil and canon law, but returned to spend most of the rest of his life as a lawyer at Frankfurt.… |
| Thring, Godfrey |
b Alford, Som 1823, d Shamley Green, nr Godalming, Surrey 1903. Shrewsbury Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford. Ordained (CofE) 1846. After curacies at Stratfield-Turgis and Stratfield Saye (both nr Basingstoke,… |
| Clark, Jeremiah |
b Worcester c1749, d Bromsgrove, Worcs. 1809. Not to be confused with Jeremiah Clarke (c1674–1707). Having been Organist of St Philip’s Birmingham (now the cathedral) for nearly 40 years from 1765… |
| Douglas, Charles Winfred |
(not in Composers’ index in Praise!), b Oswego, New York, USA 1867, d Santa Rosa, Cal. 1944. Syracuse Univ; studied in Europe, then church organist in New York prior to ordination in 1893. Ill… |
| Vulpius (Fuchs), Melchior |
b Wasungen, nr Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany c1560–70, d Weimar, Germany 1615. He attended the Latin School in his home town, later Latinising his family surname; then studied music at Speyer and… |
| Thomas, David Vaughan |
b Ystalyfera, Powys 1873, d S Africa 1934. He studied music under Dr Joseph Parry after moving to Pontardulais, and then at Llandovery Coll and Exeter Coll Oxford (BA, MA, MusD). He was a… |
| Greenwell, Dorothy ('Dora') |
b Greenwell Ford, Lanchester, nr Consett, Co Durham 1821, d Clifton, Bristol 1882. Sometimes thought to have been a Quaker because of her later sympathies, she came from a strongly clerical Anglican… |
| Bortnianski (Bortnyansky), Dmitri Stepanovich (Dmitro Stepanovych) |
b Gloukoff (Hlukiv), Ukraine 1751, d St Petersburg, Russia 1825. A boy with a fine voice, probably first attending Hlukiv Choir Sch, whom Catherine the Great arranged to be trained by Galuppi at St… |
| Frey, Marvin V |
b Sherwood, Oregon, USA 1918, d N Tarrytown, New York, USA 1992. He was an ordained American evangelist and songwriter who wrote over 2000 ‘songs of faith’. One short but notable and Scriptural… |
| Edwards, Hywel Islwyn |
b 1906, d 1991. A Welsh composer who lived in Llangollen. According to his son Oswain, Prof in the Norwegian State Academy of Music, his best-known tune was ALED, published in a series of hymns for… |
| Edwards, Brian Herbert |
(not in Praise! index), b Barnstaple, N Devon 1941. Borden Grammar Sch, Sittingbourne, Kent and London Bible Coll (BD 1963). Beginning his ministry in 1963 as asst at Lansdowne Evangelical Ch, SE… |
| Harvill, Jamie |
b USA. His first ever song was ‘Albatross’; a writer of verse since childhood, he is currently a worship leader on the staff of the World Outreach Ch in Murfreesboro, nr Nashville, Tennessee, and… |
| Clifford, Alan Charles |
b Aldershot, Hants 1941. Fernhill County Secondary Sch, Farnborough. He served an Engineering apprenticeship in aircraft manufacturing before studying philosophy and theology at Univ Coll of N Wales,… |
| Gay, Robert |
b USA. He has been in full-time ministry since c1985. The pastor of High Praise Worship Center, Panama City, Florida, USA, who also has a travelling and teaching ministry ‘with an emphasis on… |
| Misselbrook, Peter Mark |
b Epping, Essex 1951. Wellingborough Grammar Sch; Balliol Coll Oxford 1970–73 (MA Physics and Philosophy); Trinity Coll Bristol 1974–77 (London BD) and a member of Pendennis Evangelical Ch,… |
| Praetorius, Michael |
Praetorius - Lat form of Schulz/Schultze, b Kreuzburg-ander-Werra, Thuringia, Germany 1571, d Wolfenbuttel, Brunswick, Germany 1621. He attended the Latin Sch of Zerbst, Anhalt; then studied… |
| Green, Keith |
b Brooklyn, New York 1953; d 1982. Born into a showbusiness family, he began on the ukulele at 3, piano at 6, and wrote his first songs at 11. Rejecting the Jewish faith of his parents and the… |
| Baker, Frederick George |
b Shorwell, Isle of Wight 1840 (not Newport, ’39), d Shanklin, IoW 1919. A cathedral choirboy at Winchester, he then ran a small watchmaking and jewellery business on the island (cf J Antes). He was… |
| Colquhoun, Frances Sara (Fuller-Maitland) |
b Shinfield Park, nr Reading, Berks 1809, d Edinburgh 1877. She wrote at least 3 hymns before the age of 18, including her adaptation of the hymn by H K White (qv) with which she became associated.… |
| Nystrom, Martin (Marty) J |
b Seattle, Washington, USA 1956. Raised in the Methodist tradition, he graduated in Music Education from the Oral Roberts Univ. After being responsible for the music ministry of ‘Christ for the… |
| Parker, Handel |
b Oxenhope, nr Haworth, W Yorks 1854, d Shipley, Yorks 1928. Born into an extensive musical family, of parents who named their children after composers including Haydn and Jubal. He played the flute… |
| Benton, John Edward |
b Isleworth, Middlesex 1949. Southall Grammar Sch and Univ of Sussex (PhD). A journalist and minister of the gospel in the Grace Baptist tradition, he produced with Bill Bygroves in 1979 a collection,… |
| Farrant, Richard |
b c1525–1530, d Windsor or Greenwich 1580. A Gentleman of the Chapel Royal who became Master of the Choristers and one of the organists of St George’s Chapel Windsor from 1564 to 1569. He thus… |
| Malan, Henri Abraham César |
b Geneva, Switzerland 1787, d 1864. He was converted in 1817, studied theology in his home city and was ordained in the Swiss Reformed Ch. But the current ecclesiastical regime in Geneva forbade the… |
| Elgar, Edward William |
b Lower Broadheath nr Worcester 1857, d Worcester 1934. Born into a musical family (‘A stream of music flowed through our house’—EWE), he soon learned to play the piano, organ, cello, double… |
