died there. He declined the professorship SANKEY, IRA DAVID (1840-1908). The faof music at Harvard University. Tunes.-Happy Day, 312; Rutherford, 614. RINK, JOHANN CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (1770- RITTER, PETER (1760-1846). A native of ROBERTS, JOHN VARLEY, Doctor of Music Tune.-Elm, 522. ROE, JOHN EDWARD (1831-1871). Said to be an English composer, but we have no definite facts concerning him. Tune.-Weston, 130, 355. ROOT, GEORGE FREDERICK, Doctor of Music. 1820-1895). Widely known as the composer of "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching" and other popular war songs; also of numerous Church tunes; was associated with Lowell Mason in educational work; a publisher of music at Chicago; received his doctorate from Chicago University. Tunes.-Rialto, 157; Rosedale, 596; Varina, 604. ROSENMÜLLER, JOHANN (1615-1686). A German musican and composer; born in Saxony; was teacher and director of music in Leipzig, and later at Wolfenbüttel, where he died. Tune.-Nassau, 240. ROSSINI, GIOACHINO ANTONIO (1792-1868). An Italian composer of popular operas and director of music. Tunes.-Manoah, 105, 361, 701; Linwood, 496. ROUSSEAU, JEAN JACQUES (1712-1778). A native of Geneva, Switzerland. mous singer of "gospel songs;" was born Tune.-Tell It Out, 634. JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1786-1853). A talented musician; student at the University of Leipzig; director of musical festivals, and a voluminous composer of symphonies, sonatas, and operas. Tune.-Lischer, 67, 565. SCHNYDER, VON WARTENSEE, XAVIER (17861868). A German composer and teacher of music; a native of Lucerne, belonging to a noble family. Tune.-Horton, 248. SCHOLEFIELD, REV. CLEMENT COTTERILL (18391904). An English clergyman; educated at Cambridge; ordained in 1867; became vicar of St. Trinity, Knightsbridge, in 1890. Tune. St. Clement, 60. SCHUMANN, ROBERT ALEXANDER (1810-1856). One of the most noted and popular of German composers; director of music at Leipzig and Dresden; a voluminous author; he composed music for stringed instruments, piano, organ, orchestra, song, etc. Tunes.-Canonbury, 42, 127, 411; Schumann, 66, 435. SCOTCH MELODY. We do not know the date SCOTCH PSALTER. A famous Psalm book Tune.-Dundee, 96, 233, 659. SHERWIN, WILLIAM FISK (1826-1887). An American composer of hymn tunes that are useful in Sunday school and church services. Few tunes in this Hymnal are more admired than these two tunes by Mr. Sherwin. a equally popular and The famous French political philosopher and writer was born at Geneva. He did not claim to be a moralist, and his music here used as Church tune and sometimes called "Rousseau's Dream" was not composed as sacred music. Tune.-Greenville, 39, 259. Tunes. Evening Praise, 57; Bread of SHRUBSOLE, WILLIAM (1752-1806). Born in Tune.-Illinois, 399. en); chorister in the Canterbury Cathe- SPILMAN, REV. JONATHAN (1835- ). A dral; in 1784 he became organist in Spa- native of England; composer of vocal mufields Chapel, London, where he remained sic. until his death. The chapel belonged to Lady Huntingdon's connection. This man is not the hymn writer of the same name. (See note under Hymn No. 180.) Tune.-Miles Lane, 167, 180. SIMPSON, ROBERT (1792-1832). Scotland. A native of Tune.-Balerma, 242, 260. SMART, HENRY (1812-1879). A noted English musician and composer. He was afflicted with blindness, but was noted for his cheerfulness and for his enthusiasm in his work as a musician. 'As a composer of Church music he obtained a world-wide reputation, his hymn tunes, services, and anthems having been long recognized as master works. Few composers in the past century equaled him in his contributions to the Church of thoroughly pure and elevating hymn tunes. Tunes.-Regent Square, 25, 113, 169, 662; Nachtlied, 61; Crucifer, 211; Vexillum, 384; Lancashire, 387, 408; Pilgrims, 621; Chant, 731. SMITH, DAVID STANLEY (1878- ). Professor of Music in Yale University. Tunes.-Fortitude, 407; Los Angeles, 664 (second tune). SMITH, REV. HENRY PERCY (1825-1898). Tune.-Maryton, 232, 341, 411, 670. An SMITH, ISAAC. An English composer; date of his birth is unknown; died about 1800. He was the director of music at Alice Street Meetinghouse, London, and the editor of A Collection of Psalm Tunes in Three Parts, about 1770. Tune. Silver Street, 3. SMITH, JOSEPH (1856- ). Bachelor of Musie; organist at Limerick Cathedral, Ireland. Tune.-Radiance, 537. SMITH, SAMUEL (1804-1873). An English- SNOW, LEVI FRANKLIN (1839-1876). An SOUTHGATE, THOMAS BISHOP (1814-1868). An Tune.-Brookfield, 70, 705. SPOHR, LOUIS (1784-1859). A celebrated German violinist and composer. He began to play the violin at five years of age, and became an expert performer. He was a successful composer of operas, oratorios, cantatas, and other forms of music. Tunes.-Simpson, 309, 316, 354, 517; Spohr, 320, 364; Waring, 465; Leyden, 619. SPRATT, MISS A. B. We have no facts concerning this composer. Tune.-Kedron, 453. ST. ALBAN'S TUNE BOOK. Tune.-Holborn Hill, 199, 336. STAINER, SIR JOHN, Doctor of Music (18401901). A distinguished English musician, famous both as an organist and as a composer of music for use in church. In 187288 he was organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. He was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1888; Professor of Music at Oxford in 1889-99. Tunes.-Cross of Jesus, 98; Paschale Gaudium, 156; Magdalena, 200, 353; Veni, 389; Jerusalem, 448; Blessed Home, 527; Rex Regium, 607, 714; Children's Offerings, 673; St. Hill, 683; Magdalen, 459, 710. STANLEY, SAMUEL (1767-1822). An English composer of hymn tunes; was precentor of the Carr's Lane Congregational Chapel, in Birmingham. Tunes.—Warwick, 41; Shirland, 512. STATHAM, FRANCIS REGINALD (1844- ). An English poet and journalist in South Africa. Tune.-Thanksgiving, 216. STATHAM, HENRY HEATHCOTE (1839- ). An English architect and amateur musician; for many years musical critic for the Edinburgh Review. Tune. St. Joseph, 132. STEBBINS, GEORGE COLES (1846- ). A singing evangelist and composer of popular tunes; born at East Carlton, N. Y.; was director of music in Tremont Temple, Boston, 1874-76; entered evangelistic work under D. L. Moody in 1876. He has been associated with Ira D. Sankey and James McGranahan in publishing various editions of Gospel Hymns and other popular religious song books. He compiled and edited The Northfield Hymnal, 1904. He resides in Brooklyn, N. Y. Tunes. Evening Prayer, Hearted, Whole-Hearted, 420. 55; True STEGGALL, CHARLES, Doctor of Music (18261905). An eminent English composer; born in London; educated at the Royal Academy of Music; professor at same school, 1851; was made Doctor of Music by Cambridge University in 1852; organist in different London churches; was connected with Church music and hymnology all his life. Tune.-Christ Church, 178, 656. STEWART, SIR ROBERT PRESCOTT, Doctor of Music (1825-1894). A native of Dublin, Ireland; educated in the school of Christ Church Cathedral; an organist and composer; was conductor and professor of music in the University of Dublin, which conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Music; published several music books. Tune.-Mount Calvary, 65, 287, 373, 395, SULLIVAN, SIR ARTHUR SEYMOUR, Doctor of Music (1842-1900). One of the most distinguished of modern English composers; a native of London; studied music at the Royal Academy, London, and at the Conservatory of Leipzig; composer of oratorios and many other forms of music; knighted in 1883. Both Cambridge and Oxford conferred on him the doctorate in music. Tunes.-Angel Voices, 27; St. Kevin, 163; Gerard, 236; Hanford, 239, 521; Leominster, 283; St. Edmund, 315; St. Gertrude, 383; Lux Eoi, 402, 567; Barony, 513; Samuel, 559, 674; Nearer Home, 590, 597; Homeland, 615; St. Theresa, 681. SWEETSER, JOSEPH EMERSON (1825-1873). An English composer of vocal music. Tunes.-Greenwood, 352; Owen, 698. TALLIS, THOMAS (1520-1585). English organist in the Chapel Royal in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; is called "the father of English cathedral music." He is described as "an important link between pre-Reformation and post-Reformation Church music. There were greater musicians than he on each side of the transition, but he was more responsible than most for the transition through his settings of the responses, the litany, anthems, etc." (Historic Edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern.) Tunes.-Evening Hymn, 49; Venite, Exultemus Domino, 728. TANSUR, WILLIAM (1700-1783). An English composer and teacher of music and editor of many music books. An Tune.-St. Martin's, 183, 569. TAYLOR, VIRGIL CORYDON (1817-1891). American composer; organist in Hartford, Conn.; editor of several books of music. Tune.-Louvan, 266, 503, 561. TESCHNER, MELCHIOR. An Austrian clergyman who lived in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; was leader of the choir in a church at Fraustadt, Austria, of which he later became the pastor. He wrote two tunes, one of which (that here given) is of world-wide fame. Tune.-St. Theodulph, 31. TIDDEMAN, MISS MARIA (1837- ). An Englishwoman; studied music at Oxford; has composed several tunes, songs, and an thems. Tune.-Ibstone, 641. TOMER, WILLIAM GOULD (1832-1896). An American journalist; served as a soldier in the Civil War; music was his avocation. Tune.-God Be with You, 564. TOURJÉE, EBEN, Doctor of Music (1834-1891). Founder of the New England Conservatory of Music, at Boston (1867); a skilled organist, teacher of music, and editor of music books; did much to encourage and improve congregational singing. He was one of the musical editors of the Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1878. He was born at Warwick, R. I., and died at Boston. Tune.-Cary, 620. TOURJÉE, MISS LIZZIE SHOVE. Mrs. Lizzie Tourjée. See Estabrook, TOZER, AUGUSTUS EDMONDS (1857- ). An WALCH, JAMES (1837- ). An English musiEnglish composer of instrumental and vocal music. Tune.-Jazer, 245, He TROYTE, ARTHUR HENRY DYKE (1811-1857). A son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland; educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1832. His adopted the name "Troyte" in 1852. chants and hymn tunes were written for the Salisbury Hymn Book, 1857. Tune.-My God, My Father, 736. TURLE, JAMES (1802-1882). Was chorister at Wells Cathedral; in 1831 he was appointed organist at Westminster Abbey; composed only a few chants and tunes. Tunes.-St. John's, Westminster, 234, 550; Westminster, 700; Chant, 733. UGLOW, JAMES (1814-1894). An English teacher and composer of vocal music; was chorister of Gloucester Cathedral; spent most of his life at Cheltenham. The tune "St. Vincent" was an adaptation from S. Neukomm, under whom Uglow studied in early life. Tune.-St. Vincent, 221. As in the study of UNKNOWN AUTHORSHIP. hymn writers we found some of the finest hymns were of unknown authorship, so here we find that the composers of many of the most popular tunes are unknown. A large list comes under this head. Hol Tunes.-Athens, 682; Caledonia, 385; Consecration, 348; Contrast, 538; Dundee, 96, 233, 659; Easter Hymn, 156; Ellacombe, 650; Ferniehurst, 250; Foundation, 461; Goshen, 584; Greenland, 18; born Hill, 199, 336; Intercession, Old, 477; Lambeth, 190, 497, 608; Leoni, 4; Mear, 577, 592; Millennium, 81; Old Hundred, 6, 16; Percivals, 676; Portuguese Hymn, 125, 461, 666; Spanish Hymn, 500. URHAN, CRETIEN D'. (1788-1845). han. Tune. Rutherford, 614. See D'Ur An Ameri ANTOINE (17881872). A native of Paris. Died in Exeter, England. Tune.-Park Street, 23, 213. WADE, JAMES CLIFFT (1847- ). An English editor and composer of vocal music. Tune.-Holy Cross, 137, 533. cian, organist, and composer. Tunes.-Sawley, 363, 533; Eagley, 406, 642; St. George's, Bolton, 614; Tidings, 654. WALKER, EDWARD C. An English composer concerning whose life we have no facts. Tune.-St. Marguerite, 369. WALLACE, WILLIAM VINCENT (1814-1865). Composer of many successful English operas. No composer of modern times had such a varied, checkered, and "many-countried" career as Wallace. The gifted son and pupil of an Irish bandmaster, he often, when but a boy, led the orchestra in Dublin, where he quickly rose to prominence as a musician; moved to London, and was entering upon a brilliant musical career when unpleasant domestic relations caused him to leave home; and he visited successively and sojourned in Australia, New Zealand, India, Latin America, London, Germany (fourteen years), New York (where he lost all his fortune in the failure of a piano house), and London again, finally dying at Haute Garonne, France. Wherever he lived his brilliant musical gifts were recognized. That a tune called "Serenity," adapted to the Quaker poet's quiet words, should come from such a restless, roving composer is one of the many anomalies met with in the musical world. Tune.-Serenity, 128, 230. WALTER, WILLIAM HENRY, Doctor of Music (1825-1893). An American composer; born in Newark, N. J.; organist at Episcopal churches in Newark and New York; was appointed organist at Columbia College, New York, in 1856, from which institution he received his doctor's degree; author of Manual of Church Music and other works. Tune.-Festal Song, 413. WALTON, J. G. (1821- ). An English composer. We have no facts of his life. Tune.-St. Catherine, 194, 415. WARD, SAMUEL AUGUSTUS (1847-1903). An American composer. We have no further See opera "The Sultan of Sulu;" a native of WELLS, MARCUS MORRIS (1815-1895). Nottingham, England; came to America in "Biographical Index of Authors." childhood; a graduate of Northwestern Tune.-Holy Spirit, Faithful Guide, 193. University; an organist, chorister, and youngest composer represented in this Hymnal, he has furnished seven tunes; and these, he informs us, were not only the first hymn tunes he ever wrote, but they were all written in one hour's time. Although many of our great hymns and tunes have been written in a few moments, we know of nothing that equals this for speed of composition. He resides in Chicago, where he is choirmaster and organist in the Church of Our Saviour. composer. Although he is perhaps the WESLEY, SAMUEL SEBASTIAN, Doctor of Music (1810-1876). The grandson of Rev. Charles Wesley, the great hymn writer of Methodism, who had two sons that became eminent as musicians and composers-viz., Charles (1757-1834), the elder of the two, who bore his father's name, and the younger, Samuel (1766-1837), who became one of the most noted musicians and composers in England. He was the father of Samuel Sebastian Wesley, whose name appears here, and who has furnished three tunes for our Hymnal. Samuel Sebastian was in his boyhood a chorister in the English Chapel Royal; was later organist at Leeds and at Hereford and Gloucester Cathedrals and conductor of the Three Choir Festivals of the English Church. He was Professor of Music in Edinburgh University. Oxford University conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Music. He was regarded by many as the best organist and greatest composer in the Church of England during a period of some years. Tunes.-Stella, 112; Festgesang, 120; Fellowship, 450; Implicit Trust, 464; Plymouth, 474; Ascending Song, 520; Greeting, 572. WEBB, GEORGE JAMES (1803-1887). An Eng lish - American musician and composer; born in Wiltshire, England; came to America in 1830, and was associated with Lowell Mason in musical work; was organist of Old South Church, Boston; died at Orange, N. J. The tune "Webb" is taken from a secular song beginning "'Tis dawn, the lark is singing," which was composed during an ocean voyage. Tune.-Webb, 386, 653. WEBBE, SAMUEL (1740-1816). An English musician, editor, and composer of glees, anthems, and songs; won twenty-six medals for such compositions; organist of Sardinian Chapel. Born in Minorca; died in London. Tunes.-Melcombe, 95, 187; Come, Ye Disconsolate, 526; Benevento, 574; Novello, 601. WEBER, CARL MARIA ERNST BARON VON (17861826). One of the most noted German composers of the nineteenth century; attained great reputation as composer and director of operas. He was born in Oldenberg, and died in London. Tunes. - Aurelia, 207, 448; Sebastian, 401; Leyden, 619. WEST, JOHN A. A resident of Chicago; composer of piano and Church music. Tune.-Godfrey, 344. WHITAKER, JOHN (1776-1847). A composer and publisher of vocal music in London, England. Tune.-Wimborne, 439. Said to be an English WHITEHEAD, H. A. musician. We have no information concerning him. Tune.-Victory, 391, 593. WICKES, C. A. Said to be an English composer. We have no information concerning him. Tune.-Chant to the Lord's Prayer, 735. Tunes.-Seymour, 267, 514; Jewett, 524; WILCOX, JOHN HENRY, Doctor of Music (1827 Wilmot, 545. WEBSTER, REV. LORIN, D.D. (1857- ). A clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church; born in Claremont, N. H; graduated at Trinity College (Connecticut), 1880, and at the Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn., 1883; author of several musical compositions. He is now rector of Holderness School (New Hampshire). Tunes.-Service, 414; Ruth, 492. 1875). An American composer whose contributions to music were of such merit as to win for him the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Tune.-Faben, 638. WILLIAMS, AARON (1731-1776). Of Welsh descent; a composer of psalmody and clerk of the Scotch Church in London, where he was a music engraver and publisher. Tune.-St. Thomas, 22, 208. |