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The beautiful land

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: There's a beautiful land where sweet flowers ever bloom Refrain First Line: Then come, pretty angels

[There's a beautiful land]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. B. Bradbury Used With Text: The Beautiful Land

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Hymnal: Bradbury's Golden Shower of S.S. Melodies #60 (1862) First Line: There's a beautiful land Where sweet flowers ever bloom Refrain First Line: Then come, pretty angels Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a beautiful land]

The beautiful land

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Hymnal: Sabbath School Trumpet #d95 (1864) First Line: There's a beautiful land where sweet flowers ever bloom Refrain First Line: Then come, pretty angels

In the beautiful land, when the sorrows of earth

Author: B. B. Edmiaston Hymnal: Gospel Bells #d160 (1922) First Line: There's a beautiful land where sweet flowers ever bloom Languages: English

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William B. Bradbury

1816 - 1868 Person Name: Wm. B. Bradbury Composer of "[There's a beautiful land]" in Bradbury's Golden Shower of S.S. Melodies William Bachelder Bradbury USA 1816-1868. Born at York, ME, he was raised on his father's farm, with rainy days spent in a shoe-shop, the custom in those days. He loved music and spent spare hours practicing any music he could find. In 1830 the family moved to Boston, where he first saw and heard an organ and piano, and other instruments. He became an organist at 15. He attended Dr. Lowell Mason's singing classes, and later sang in the Bowdoin Street church choir. Dr. Mason became a good friend. He made $100/yr playing the organ, and was still in Dr. Mason's choir. Dr. Mason gave him a chance to teach singing in Machias, ME, which he accepted. He returned to Boston the following year to marry Adra Esther Fessenden in 1838, then relocated to Saint John, New Brunswick. Where his efforts were not much appreciated, so he returned to Boston. He was offered charge of music and organ at the First Baptist Church of Brooklyn. That led to similar work at the Baptist Tabernacle, New York City, where he also started a singing class. That started singing schools in various parts of the city, and eventually resulted in music festivals, held at the Broadway Tabernacle, a prominent city event. He conducted a 1000 children choir there, which resulted in music being taught as regular study in public schools of the city. He began writing music and publishing it. In 1847 he went with his wife to Europe to study with some of the music masters in London and also Germany. He attended Mendelssohn funeral while there. He went to Switzerland before returning to the states, and upon returning, commenced teaching, conducting conventions, composing, and editing music books. In 1851, with his brother, Edward, he began manufacturring Bradbury pianos, which became popular. Also, he had a small office in one of his warehouses in New York and often went there to spend time in private devotions. As a professor, he edited 59 books of sacred and secular music, much of which he wrote. He attended the Presbyterian church in Bloomfield, NJ, for many years later in life. He contracted tuberculosis the last two years of his life. John Perry

B. B. Edmiaston

1881 - 1955 Author of "The beautiful land" Benard Bates Edmiaston Born: July 16, 1881, Bennetts, Baxter County, Arkansas. Died: December 2, 1964, Bronte, Texas. Buried: Fairview Cemetery, Bronte, Texas. Bernard was the son of David W. Edmiaston and Georgia Ann Fluty, and husband of Ella Allen. He studied music under Rufus Turner, Franklin Eiland, W. H. Lawson, Berry McGee, Emmett Dean, G. W. Fields, John Herbert, and many others, and taught singing schools for at least 38 years. He wrote and published songs through the Trio Music Company, Waco, Texas, and was director of the Southern Development Normal School of Music in Waco. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)