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Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Jesus, tender Saviour" in The Sunday School Hymnary In 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.

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Composer of "MAGDALENE" in The Parish School Hymnal As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman

Friedrich Filitz

1804 - 1876 Composer of "DERBY" in The Sunday School Hymnary Friedrich Filitz PhD Germany 1804-1876. Born at Arnstadt. Thuringia, he was a German composer and musicologist. He collected church music. He also studied philosophy. In 1833 he worked in Berlin as a music critic and at other employment. He was also a music historian. With Ludwig Erck, he published a collection of 15th & 17th Century chorales in 1845. He moved to Munich and published a chorale book in 1847. His legacy of vauable church music was donated to the Bavarian State Library, where it has made many forgotten works available once again. He died in Bonn, Germany. John Perry

John Adcock

1838 - 1919 Composer of "WOODBROOK" in Little Children's Book

Christian H. Rinck

1770 - 1846 Person Name: J. C. H. Rink, (1770-1846.) Composer of "HOLY SPIRIT, HEAR US" in Christian Hymns Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck; b. 1770, Elgersburg, Thueringen; d. 1846, Darmstadt Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Henry N. Whitney

Person Name: H. N. Whitney Composer of "LUELLA" in The Sunday School Hymnal

Carl Reinecke

1824 - 1910 Person Name: Reinecke Composer of "[Jesus, tender Saviour]" in Sacred Songs for Little Singers

William W. Rousseau

Person Name: Wm. W. Rousseau Composer of "[Jesus, tender Saviour]" in The New Children's Hymnal

George Edward Martin

b. 1851 Composer of "[Jesus, tender Saviour]" in Six Hymns George Edward Martin – Martin left his charge in St. Louis, MO, in 1898. For two years following he was pastor of the Holland Memorial Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and then spent a year and a half in rest and travel. He was installed pastor of the Kirk Street congregational Church in Lowell, Mass., March 3, 1902. He received the degree of D.D. from Wabash College in 1895, and also from Park College, MO. He is the author of “Sermons and Sermon Rhymes,” and “Sunday Songs for Little Children,” and has given much time and study to the writing of hymns and tunes for children. Address, 48 Deer Cove, Lynn, Mass. --Biographical Record of the Class of 1872, Yale College, Volume 3 By Yale university. Class of 1872