| Morley, Henry Litchfield |
b ?London 1834, d ?Greenwich 1916 or ?N America 1883 (dates not certain as given in 1st Full Music edn). He is said to have been a music teacher in Coldharbour Lane, Camberwell, SE London, and… |
| Moss, Edwin |
b Hanover Square, C London (Middx) 1838, d Hackney, E London 1919. The first known appearance in a hymnal of a tune of his came in 1964, with Hymns of Faith, which has no acknowledgement of any… |
| Oswald J Smith and BD Ackley |
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| Paine, Donald |
20th-c Schoolmaster and Director of Music at Radley Coll, nr Abingdon, Oxon. No.555*. |
| Noel and Tricia Richards |
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| Pearce, Frederick C P |
b Streatley, nr Luton, Beds 1874, d Luton 1948. His spiritual life began among the Methodists, but he later joined the Strict Baptist Ch at Barton-le-Clay nearby. Although he played no instrument, he… |
| Pope, George Alexander |
b 1830, d Romford, Essex 1893. The composer of one enduring tune which appears in The Companion Tune Book and a few current collections; no more information is available. No.648. |
| Charpentier, Marc-Antoine |
b in or nr Paris ?1643/50, d Paris 1704. See note in EP1 to no.54 and major article in Grove. |
| Rowlands, William Penfro |
b Maenclochog, Dyfed (Pembrokeshire), S Wales, 1860 d Swansea, Glamorganshire 1937. Trained as a teacher; conductor of Morriston United Choral Society, one of the best in S Wales. Precentor of… |
| Clausnitzer, Tobias |
b Thum (or Thurn), nr Annaburg, Saxony 1619, d Weiden, Upper Palatine 1684. Univ of Leipzig; graduated 1643. He served as Chaplain to a Swedish regiment during the Thirty Years War, and following the… |
| Münster Gesangbuch |
1677. A collection belonging to what in Julian is called the ‘Third Period’ of German hymnody, seen with hindsight as coming between the great Reformation hymns and the beginnings of Pietism with… |
| Bury, William |
b ?Lancs 1788, d 1857. During his lifetime, his hymn tunes were circulated in ms in Accrington (Lancs) and more widely throughout the district. They never became well-known beyond there, but two of… |
| Keith Getty and Richard Creighton |
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| Heaps, Phil |
b Dewsbury, W Yorks 1975. Cambridge Univ (MA Maths); a systems software engineer who belongs to a Grace Baptist church, and wrote his first hymn text, first published in Praise!, while still a… |
| Tochter Sion, Cologne (1741) |
The popular name is adopted from the last two words of its much longer German title; the book bears the name of Cologne-born Dr Heinrich Lindenborn (1712–1750), It broke away from the traditional… |
| European Magazine (1792) |
The Nov 1792 issue of The European Magazine and London Review is the first known appearance of an earlier version of a tune still in some demand. No.649. |
| Wellens, S |
A composer whose one currently-published tune featured in 1977 in both CH and GH; it was also his one entry in The Companion Tune Book (qv) but no further information is given or is yet available.… |
| Clarke, James |
b ?late 1940s. Leighton Park Sch, Reading (1955–59); he then worked with the BBC. His music was published first in 1986 (The Book of Praises), and in the 1990s he was living at Norwich. No.121B. |
| Stuart Townend, Keith & Kristyn Getty, Ross Holmes |
Stuart, Keith & Kristyn and Ross are published at Praise! online number 1264 |
| Graham Andrew Kendrick and Stephen (Steve) Thompson |
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| Badrick, Albert E |
b N of England. An early 20th-c composer and band conductor, who in Sept 1944 conducted the first massed band concert in Huddersfield Town Hall. In 1964 he conducted the prizewinning Wellesley… |
| The Psalter, 1887 |
One of a long line of paraphrases, this time from the Ch of Ireland, which has yielded one short, rarely-sung and now adapted text. No.117. |
| Jackson, Robert |
b Oldham, Lancashire 1840, d Royton, nr Oldham 1914. Royal Academy of Music; organist, St Mark’s Grosvenor Sq (or N Audley St?), London, 1866–1868. Returned north in 1868 as organist of St… |
| Robert and Dawn Critchley |
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| Jones, Wilfrid |
b 1862, d 1929. A Welsh composer whose work was included in the major Methodist collection in 1929, Llyfr Emynau a Thonau (‘The Book of Hymns and Tunes’). No.77. |
| K - in Rippon's Selection |
The 18th-c author of no.877 has never been convincingly identified; see notes in EP vol 1. See also under J Rippon; it was apparently Wm Gadsby (qv) who first linked this hymn with Kirkham, but this… |
| Kelly, Katharine Agnes May (Mary) |
KELLY, Katharine Agnes May (‘Mary’), b Croydon, Surrey 1869, d Tunbridge Wells, Kent 1942. As her hymn is evangelical in tone and found almost exclusively in evangelical books, it may be assumed… |
| King, Mary Lou |
Her best known (jointly authored) song, included here, made its main impact in the UK via Spring Harvest events and MP. No.254. |
| Lancaster, Joseph |
b Hunslet, Yorks 1833, d Holbeck, ?Yorks 1880. He was organist at Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds, where in 1868 he edited The Leeds Tune Book. He composed hymn tunes and other church music. No.770. |
| Spiess's Davids Harpffen-Spiel, Heidelberg (1745) |
Johann Martin Spiess was Prof of Music at Heidelberg Gymnasium and Organist at St Peter’s Ch. He was then Cathedral Organist at Berne, Switzerland, from 1746 until his death in 1772. No.765. |
