[For this sweet hour, O heavenly King] (Doane)

[For this sweet hour, O heavenly King] (Doane)

Composer: W. H. Doane
Published in 3 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: W. H. Doane

An industrialist and philanthropist, William H. Doane (b. Preston, CT, 1832; d. South Orange, NJ, 1915), was also a staunch supporter of evangelistic campaigns and a prolific writer of hymn tunes. He was head of a large woodworking machinery plant in Cincinnati and a civic leader in that city. He showed his devotion to the church by supporting the work of the evangelistic team of Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey and by endowing Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and Denison University in Granville, Ohio. An amateur composer, Doane wrote over twenty-two hundred hymn and gospel song tunes, and he edited over forty songbooks. Bert Polman… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [For this sweet hour, O heavenly King] (Doane)
Composer: W. H. Doane
Incipit: 11165 32343 35175
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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