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William Amps

1824 - 1910 Person Name: W. Amps, d. 1910 Composer of "VENICE" in The Riverdale Hymn Book Amps was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge (BA 1858, MA 1862). He played the organ at King’s College (1855-76) and Christ’s College. He also conducted the Cambridge University Musical Society for many years. Amps composed a good deal of music, including piano sonatas and part songs.

A. L. Peace

1844 - 1912 Person Name: A. L. Peace, Mus. D. Composer of "LYRA" in The Scottish Hymnal Albert Lister Peace DMus United Kingdom 1844-1912. Born at Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England, son of a warehouseman and woolstapler, he was extremely gifted as a musician, largely self-taught, playing the organ at Holmfirth Parish Church near Huddersfield at age nine. He married Margaret Martin Steel Gilchrist, and they had three children: Lister, Archibald, and Margaret. In 1865 he was appointed organist of Trinity Congregational Church in Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Oxford in 1875. He became organist at Glasgow Cathedral in 1879. In 1897 he succeeded William Best as organist at St George’s Hall, Liverpool. In later years he was in much demand to play the organ in recitals. He did so at Canterbury Cathedral (1886), Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (1888), and Newcastle Cathedral (1891). He composed orchestrations, sonatas, cantatas, and concert and church service anthems. He was an arranger, author, and editor. He died at Blundelsands, Liverpool, England. John Perry

Charles Zeuner

1795 - 1857 Composer of "ALEXANDER" in The New Laudes Domini Also: Zeuner, Heinrich Christoph, 1795-1857 Zeuner, Heinrich Christopher, 1795-1857

W. Warren Bentley

Person Name: W. W. Bentley Composer of "BUDGE" in Songs of Gratitude

Edward Morris Bowman

1848 - 1913 Person Name: Edward Morris Bowman, 1848-1913 Composer of "BARNARD" in AGO Founders Hymnal An AGO Founder, one-time chair of the Vassar Music Department; edited First Baptist Peddie Memorial Church, Newark's Sunday School songbook; composed a Short Meter tune, BARNARD (Bowman), to which Your Harps, Ye Trembling Saints is set in the AGO Founders Hymnal