[Fairest of ten thousand, is]

[Fairest of ten thousand, is]

Composer: A. H. Ackley
Published in 5 hymnals


Composer: A. H. Ackley

Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles. Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [Fairest of ten thousand, is]
Composer: A. H. Ackley
Incipit: 55456 53112 13551
Key: D♭ Major
Copyright: Copyright, 1938, by The Rodeheaver Co., renewed 1966

Timeline

Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • The Gospel Organist Volume Five: Gospel-Song Arrangements Suitable for Preludes, Offertories, Specials
    Composer/Editor Harold H. DeCou
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1974) pp. 20
  • Organ Hymn Tunes No. 4: Preludes, Interludes, Voluntaries
    Composer/Editors George S. Schuler; Alfred H. Ackley
    Published By: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company (1971) pp. 8
  • Paul Mickelson's Organ Music Volume Two: With Pipe and Hammond Organ Registrations
    Composer/Editor Paul Mickelson
    Published By: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company (1966) pp. 28

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
Audio

Favorites Number 4 #46

Hymns for Praise and Service #217

Oswald Smith's Best Songs #45

The New Church Hymnal #279

Victorious Hymns #46

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