1815 - 1882Person Name: John Zundel, 1815-1882Composer of "BEECHER" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray)John Zundel; b. 1815, near Stuttgart, Germany; organist in Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1847 to 1878; d. Cannstadt, Germany, 1882
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908
Author of "Now with Joyful Exultation" in The Cyber HymnalIn some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.