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Alexander Robert Reinagle
1799 - 1877 Composer of "ST. PETER (Reinagle)" in The Cyber Hymnal Alexander Robert Reinagle United Kingdom 1799-1877. Born at Brighton, Sussex, England, gf Austrian descent, he came from a family of musicians, studying music with his father (a cellist), then with Raynor Taylor in Edinburgh, Scotland. Reinagle became a well-known organ teacher. He became organist at St Peter’s Church, Oxford (1823-1853). He was also a theatre musician. He wrote Teaching manuals for stringed instruments as well. He also compiled books of hymn tunes, one in 1830: “Psalm tunes for the voice and the pianoforte”, the other in 1840: “A collection of Psalm and hymn tunes”. He also composed waltzes. In 1846 he married Caroline Orger, a pianist, composer, and writer in her own right. No information found regarding children. In the 1860s he was active in Oxford music-making and worked with organist, John Stainer, then organist at Magdalen College. Reinagle also composed a piano sonata and some church music. At retirement he moved to Kidlington, Oxfordshire, England. He died at Kidlington.
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Elizabeth Missing Sewell
1815 - 1906 Person Name: Ellen M. Sewell Author of "O Savior! When Thy Loving Hand" in The Cyber Hymnal Sewell, Elizabeth Missing, writer of a number of novels (Cleve Hall, &c), is the author of "O Saviour! when Thy loving hand" (For use at Sea), in the 1889 Supplemental Hymns to Hymns Ancient & Modern. She was born in 1815.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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