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Joseph Mainzer

Joseph Mainzer
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/i/mainzer_j.htm
Short Name: Joseph Mainzer
Full Name: Mainzer, Joseph, 1801-1851
Birth Year: 1801
Death Year: 1851

Abbe Joseph Mainzer, b. Trier, 1807; d. Mancehster, 1851

Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal,

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Born: October 21, 1801, Trier, Germany.
Died: November 10, 1851, Higher Broughton (near Manchester), England.

Mainzer was educated at the Maîtrise of Trier Cathedral. Having studied engineering, he worked in mines at Saarbrücken, but was ordained in 1826 and after a few years became an abbé. He left Germany in 1833 for political reasons, settling in Brussels, then Paris, and Britain in 1839, living first in Edinburgh, then, after 1847, in Manchester. He published the Musical Times and Singing Circular. Novello took over the publication in 1844, renaming it the Musical Times.

Sources:
Pratt, p. 622

http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/i/mainzer_j.htm

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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mainzer,_Joseph_(DNB00)

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TextsTunesHymnalsRecommendations
Tunes by Joseph Mainzer (7)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
CARMEL (Mainzer)J. Mainzer (Composer)157717 66564 53176
ELLACOMBEMainzer Gesangbuch (Composer)151765 13455 67122
ELLIS (Mainzer)Joseph Mainzer, 1801-1851 (Composer)153517 76656 45317
HUMILITY (Mainzer)Joseph Mainzer, 1801-1851 (Composer)217123 21212 3432
[In distant lands though far we roam]J. Mainzer (Composer)151535 17123 21232
MAINZERJoseph Mainzer (Composer)11655517 66564 53176
Y NEFOEDDJ. Mainzer (Composer)351111 17712 23721

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