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E. J. Hopkins

1818 - 1901 Person Name: Edward J. Hopkins Composer of "DEVA" in Hymns of the Church Dr Edward John Hopkins MusDoc United Kingdom 1818-1901. Born at Westminster, England, the son of a clarinetist with the Royal Opera House orchestra, he became an organist (as did two of his brothers) and a composer. In 1826 he became a chorister of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King William IV in Westminster Abbey. He also sang in the choir of St. Paul’s Cathedral, a double schedule requiring skill and dexterity. On Sunday evenings he would play the outgoing voluntary at St. Martin’s in-the-field. He left Chapel Royal in 1834 and started studying organ construction at two organ factories. He took an appointment at Mitcham Church as organist at age 16, winning an audition against other organists. Four years later he became organist at the Church of St. Peter, Islington. In 1841 he became organist at St. Luke’s, Berwick St., Soho. Two Years later he was organist at Temple Church, which had a historic organ (built in 1683). He held this position for 55 years. In 1845 he married Sarah Lovett, and they had four sons and five daughters. He was closely associated with the Bach Society and was organist for the first English performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. In 1855 he collaborated with Edward Rimbault publishing “The organ, its history and construction” (3 editions 1855-70-77). In 1864 he was one of the founders of the “College of organists”. In 1882 he received an honorary Doctorate of Music from the Archbishop of Canterbury. He composed 30+ hymn tunes and some psalm chants, used by the Church of England. He died in London, England. John Perry
E. J. Hopkins

John Julian

1839 - 1913 Author of "Children, blend your voices" in Hymns of the Church Born: Jan­u­a­ry 27, 1839, St. Ag­nes, Corn­wall. Died: Jan­u­a­ry 22, 1913, Thirsk, York­shire, Eng­land. Educated pri­vate­ly, Ju­li­an grad­u­at­ed from Dur­ham Un­i­ver­si­ty (MA 1887), Lam­beth (DD 1894), and How­ard Un­i­ver­si­ty in Wash­ing­ton, DC (LLD 1894). He took Ho­ly Or­ders in 1866, and served as Vi­car of Win­co­bank (1876-1905) and Vi­car of Top­cliff, York­shire (1905-). How­ev­er, he is best known as a hymn­ol­o­gist. The stand­ard ref­er­ence work in this field is his ma­ssive Dic­tion­ary of Hym­nol­o­gy: Or­i­gin and His­to­ry of Chris­tian Hymns and Hymn­writ­ers of All Ag­es and Na­tions, To­ge­ther with Bi­o­graph­ic­al and Cri­ti­cal No­tic­es of Their Au­thors and Trans­lat­ors. This work has been re­vised and re­print­ed sev­er­al times; its pub­li­ca­tion dates in­clude: -- London: J. Murray, 1892 -- London: J. Murray, 1908 (this may be the edi­tion re­vised by James Mearns (1855-1922), Vi­car of Rush­den, Hert­ford­shire) --Grand Ra­pids, Mi­chi­gan: Kre­gel Pub­li­ca­tions, 1985 His other works in­clude: Concerning Hymns, 1874 History of the Use of Hymns in Pub­lic Wor­ship, and Their Pro­per Char­ac­ter­is­tics, 1894 Carols, An­cient and Mo­dern, 1900 Julian do­nat­ed his large col­lect­ion of hym­no­lo­gi­cal books and man­u­scripts to the Church House, Dean’s Yard, Lon­don, where it formed the hym­no­lo­gi­cal de­part­ment of the li­bra­ry. www.hymntime.com/tch
John Julian

Gioacchino A. Rossini

1792 - 1868 Person Name: Rossini, 1792-1868 Composer of "FLEURY" in The Sunday School Hymnary Gioacchino A. Rossini; b. 1792, Pesaro; d. 1868, Ruelle near Parise Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Gioacchino A. Rossini

Frank G. Ilsley

1831 - 1887 Composer of "DANIA" in Pilgrim Songs (Number Two) Born: Circa 1831, Maine. As of 1880, Ilsley was teaching music in Newark, New Jersey. --www.hymntime.com/tch
Frank G. Ilsley

Thomas F. Dunhill

1877 - 1946 Person Name: T. F. Dunhill, b. 1877 Composer of "CARMEN ANGELORUM" in Church Hymns Born: February 1, 1877, Hamp­stead, Lon­don, Eng­land. Died: March 13, 1946, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, Eng­land. Buried: Appleby, Lincolnshire, England. Dunhill was a gif­ted pi­a­no stu­dent, and a child­hood en­thu­si­ast for the light op­er­as of Gil­bert & Sull­i­van, whose work he em­u­lat­ed by com­pos­ing a number of small op­er­et­tas in his teens. In 1893, he en­rolled at the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic, London, stu­dy­ing pi­a­no­for­te un­der Frank­lin Tay­lor and com­po­si­tion un­der Charles Stan­ford. His con­tem­po­rar­ies in­clud­ed Ralph Vaugh­an Will­iams, Gus­tav Holst, and John Irel­and, who re­mained a life­long friend. He won an open schol­ar­ship for com­po­si­tion in 1897. Dunhill was a mu­sic-mas­ter at Eton Col­lege for sev­er­al years be­fore be­com­ing a pro­fess­or at the Roy­al Col­lege of Mu­sic in 1905. From 1907-19 he gave con­certs of cham­ber mu­sic in Lon­don. He him­self wrote cham­ber mu­sic and al­so songs and song-cyc­les. His song-cycle The Wind Among the Reeds, for ten­or voice and or­ches­tra, was first per­formed by Ger­vase El­wes with the Roy­al Phil­har­mon­ic Orc­hes­tra at Queen’s Hall in 1912. His set­ting of Will­iam But­ler Yeats’ "The Cloths of Heaven" is well known. El­wes (with Fred­erick B. Kid­dle) recorded his song "A Sea Dirge," a set­ting of Shakes­peare’s lyr­ic "Full fathom five." In Ju­ly 1918, Dun­hill chaired the meet­ing of Di­rec­tors of the Roy­al Phil­har­mon­ic So­ci­e­ty which set out to re­claim dem­o­cra­tic con­trol of the So­ci­e­ty’s af­fairs when, dur­ing World War I, they had large­ly fall­en un­der the sin­gle, if high­ly be­nev­o­lent, con­trol of Thom­as Beech­am and his sec­re­ta­ry Don­ald Bay­lis. Dunhill gave a con­cert of mu­sic by Bri­tish com­pos­ers in Bel­grade in 1922, which in­clud­ed his own Sym­pho­ny in A min­or com­posed dur­ing the war, and in 1924 con­trib­ut­ed Ser­bi­an ar­ti­cles to the Dent Musical Dictionary/. After the war, Dun­hill’s work shift­ed from or­ches­tral and cham­ber mu­sic to­ward light op­era and other genres. In 1931, his light op­era Tan­ti­vy Tow­ers was a con­sid­er­a­ble suc­cess in London, and a suite of ball­et mov­ements, Gal­li­mauf­ry, was per­formed in Ham­burg in 1937. Dur­ing the 1920s and 1930s, he wrote ve­ry ma­ny small piec­es for pi­a­no, for mu­si­cians to play at home, ma­ny of which were pub­lished. Some of his el­e­men­ta­ry piec­es are still used by the As­so­ci­at­ed Board (ABRSM) for ex­am­in­a­tions. Dunhill had from 1906 been a sen­ior ex­am­in­er for the ABRSM, tak­ing him over­seas on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions. Dunhill led a bu­sy life as an ad­min­is­tra­tor, in ad­di­tion to his work as a com­pos­er, teach­er and ex­am­in­er. He adjud­i­cat­ed at sev­er­al re­gion­al mu­sic fes­tiv­als, lec­tured and oc­ca­sion­al­ly broad­cast on the BBC. In the ear­ly 1940s he com­posed a num­ber of suites for wind in­stru­ments, which con­tin­ue to be popular. In 1914, Dun­hill mar­ried Mol­ly Ar­nold, a great-grand-daughter of Thom­as Ar­nold of Rug­by. She died of tu­ber­cu­lo­sis in 1929. They had three child­ren. (One of his sons, Da­vid Dun­hill, 1917-2005, was a BBC ra­dio an­nounc­er for ma­ny years.) In 1942, he ­mar­ried Is­o­bel Fea­ton­by; they both be­came mu­sic teach­ers at Eton Coll­ege dur­ing World War II. Dunhill’s works include: Chamber Mu­sic: A Trea­tise for Stud­ents (Lon­don: Mac­mil­lan, 1913) "Edward Ger­man, An Ap­pre­ci­a­tion"(Mu­sic­al Times, Vol. 77, No. 1126 (De­cem­ber 1936), pp. 1073–77) Sullivan’s Com­ic Op­er­as—A Cri­ti­cal Ap­pre­ci­a­tion (Lon­don: Ed­ward Ar­nold, 1928) Sir Ed­ward Elg­ar (Lon­don: Black­ie & Son, 1938) © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)
Thomas F. Dunhill

William T. Crossley

Composer of "[Sweetly sang the angels]" in The Cyber Hymnal
William T. Crossley

Morgan Rhys

1716 - 1776 Author of "Sweetly sang the glorious angels" Rhys, Morgan, a famous Welsh hymnwriter of the last century. He published several collections of hymns under quaint titles. Golwg o ben Nebo ar wlad yr Addewid (A View of the land of promise from the top of Mr. Nebo). Frwyd Ysbrydal (The Spiritual Warfare). Graddfanan y Credadyn, &c. (The Groanings of the Believer). He died in 1776, and was buried at Llanfynydd Church, in Caermarthenshire. [Rev. W. Glenffrwd Thomas] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Rhys, Morgan, p. 959, i. A short notice of this writer (a schoolmaster in connection with the Calvinistic Methodists), is given in H. Elvet Lewis's Sweet Singers of Wales, 1889, together with a few translations into English of his hymns. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Morgan Rhys

R. E. Williams

Person Name: Rev. R. E. Williams Translator of "Sweetly sang the glorious angels" in Christmas Carols together with Certain Familiar Hymns and Songs
R. E. Williams

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