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David Evans

1874 - 1948 Person Name: David Evans (1874-1948) Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:16 Harmonizer of "HYFRYDOL" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Dmitri Stepanovich Bortnianski

1751 - 1825 Person Name: Dmitri Bortniansky Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:11 Composer of "ST. PETERSBURG" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortniansky (1751-1825) Ukraine 1751-1825 Born in Glukhov, Ukraine, he joined the imperial choir at age 8 and studied with Galuppi, who later took the lad with him to Italy, where he studied for 10 years, becoming a composer, harpsichordist, and conductor. While in Italy he composed several operas and other instrumental music, composing more operas and music later in Russia. In 1779 he returned to Russia, where he was appointed Director to the Imperial Chapel Choir, the first as a native citizen. In 1796 he was appointed music director. With such a great instrument at his disposal, he produced many compositions, 100+ religious works, sacred concertos, cantatas, and hymns. He influenced Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovshy, the latter editing Bortniansky's sacred work, amassing 10 volumnes. He died in St. Petersburg. He was so popular in Russia that a bronze statue was erected in his honor in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in different musical styles, including choral works in French, Italian, Latin, German, and Church Slavonic. John Perry

George James Webb

1803 - 1887 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:11 Composer of "WEBB" in The Hymnal and Order of Service George James Webb, b. 1803,England; d. 1887, Orange, N. J. Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Juanita R. de Balloch

1894 - 1959 Person Name: Juanita R. de Balloch, b. 1894 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 Translator (sts. 1, 2, 4) of "Come, You Thankful People, Come (Elevemos al Creador)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song Born: 1894, Spain.

Dimas Planas-Belfort

1934 - 1992 Person Name: Dimas Planas-Belfort, 1934-1992 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:13-15 Translator (st. 3) of "Come, You Thankful People, Come (Elevemos al Creador)" in Oramos Cantando = We Pray In Song

Johann Balthasar König

1691 - 1758 Person Name: Johann Balthasar König (1691-1758) Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 Composer of "FRANCONIA" in Common Praise (1998) Johann Balthasar König; b. 1691, Waltershausen, near Gotha; d. 1758, Frankfort Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Edwin Hatch

1835 - 1889 Person Name: Edwin Hatch, 1835-1889 Scripture: 1 Corinthians 3:15-16 Author of "O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) Hatch, Edwin, D.D., was born at Derby, Sep. 4, 1835, and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford, B.A., in honours, in 1857. After holding important appointments in Canada, he returned to England and became Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 1867; and Rector of Purleigh, 1883. (See also Crockford). He died Nov. 10, 1889. His hymn-writing was limited. One, and that a very spirited lyric, is in Allon's Congregational Psalmist Hymnal, 1886 "Breathe on me, Breath of God." (Whitsuntide.) Dr. Hatch's hymns were published in his posthumous Towards Fields of Light, London 1890. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)