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Frederick G. Baker

1840 - 1908 Person Name: Frederick George Baker, b.1840 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity Composer of "ST. SAVIOUR" in The Book of Praise Frederick George Baker was born in Shorwell, Isle of Wight on May 19, 1840. Served at St. Saviour’s Church, Shanklin, for almost 30 years. He died in Shaklin, Isle of Wight on March 10, 1908. NN

Robert H. McCartney

1844 - 1895 Person Name: R H McCartney Topics: Advent and Nativity Composer of "WESTWOOD" in The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal

Robert O. Hoffelt

b. 1920 Person Name: Robert O. Hoffelt, 1920- Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Jesus Advent and Nativity Adapter of "GO TELL IT" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal

Friedrich Filitz

1804 - 1876 Person Name: Friedrich Filitz, 1804 - 1876 Topics: God The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity Composer of "BEMERTON (CASWALL)" in The Hymnary of the United Church of Canada Friedrich Filitz PhD Germany 1804-1876. Born at Arnstadt. Thuringia, he was a German composer and musicologist. He collected church music. He also studied philosophy. In 1833 he worked in Berlin as a music critic and at other employment. He was also a music historian. With Ludwig Erck, he published a collection of 15th & 17th Century chorales in 1845. He moved to Munich and published a chorale book in 1847. His legacy of vauable church music was donated to the Bavarian State Library, where it has made many forgotten works available once again. He died in Bonn, Germany. John Perry

Alonzo P. Howard

1838 - 1902 Person Name: Alonzo P. Howard Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity Composer of "EPHRATAH" in The Pilgrim Hymnal Born: June 20, 1838, Boston, Massachusetts. Died: August 28, 1902, York Harbor, Maine. Alonzo Potter Howard lived in Longwood, Massachusetts (now part of the town of Brookline). He worked for the Merrimac Chemical Company for four decades, and was its vice president and treasurer at the time of his death. All his music was published in Boston. His works include: Selected Christmas Carols, 1892 Sources-- Hughes, p. 441 New York Times, August 29, 1902 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)

Ralph Vaughan Williams

1872 - 1958 Person Name: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Topics: Covenant; Covenant; Covenant; Hope; Kingdom/Reign of God; Love of God for Us; Salvation; Morning Prayer Gospel Canticle; The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundasy and Weekdays); The Liturgical Year The Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Jun3 24) Adapter of "FORST GREEN" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) Through his composing, conducting, collecting, editing, and teaching, Ralph Vaughan Williams (b. Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, England, October 12, 1872; d. Westminster, London, England, August 26, 1958) became the chief figure in the realm of English music and church music in the first half of the twentieth century. His education included instruction at the Royal College of Music in London and Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as additional studies in Berlin and Paris. During World War I he served in the army medical corps in France. Vaughan Williams taught music at the Royal College of Music (1920-1940), conducted the Bach Choir in London (1920-1927), and directed the Leith Hill Music Festival in Dorking (1905-1953). A major influence in his life was the English folk song. A knowledgeable collector of folk songs, he was also a member of the Folksong Society and a supporter of the English Folk Dance Society. Vaughan Williams wrote various articles and books, including National Music (1935), and composed numerous arrangements of folk songs; many of his compositions show the impact of folk rhythms and melodic modes. His original compositions cover nearly all musical genres, from orchestral symphonies and concertos to choral works, from songs to operas, and from chamber music to music for films. Vaughan Williams's church music includes anthems; choral-orchestral works, such as Magnificat (1932), Dona Nobis Pacem (1936), and Hodie (1953); and hymn tune settings for organ. But most important to the history of hymnody, he was music editor of the most influential British hymnal at the beginning of the twentieth century, The English Hymnal (1906), and coeditor (with Martin Shaw) of Songs of Praise (1925, 1931) and the Oxford Book of Carols (1928). Bert Polman

Philip Armes

1836 - 1908 Person Name: Philip Armes, 1830-1908 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity Composer of "GALILEE" in The Book of Praise Philip Armes, born in Norwich,England, Aug. 15, 1836. Organist; chorister in Norwich Cathedral in 1846-48, and in Rochester Cathedral 1848-51; articled pupil of Dr. John Larkin Hopkins at Rochester, 1850-55; was organist of Trinity Church, Milton, Gravesend in 1855-57, at St. Andrew's, Wells Street, London, in 1857-61, of Chichester Cathedral in 1861-62, and of Durham Cathedral since 1862. Mus. Bac., Oxford 1858; Mus. Doc., Oxford, 1865. degrees also from University of Durham, 1863-1864. Works: Hezekiah, oratorio, performed at Worcester Festival, 1878; St. John the Evangelist, do., York Festival 1881; Communion Services in A; do. in B-flat; Te Deum; Morning and Evening Service in G; Anthems; Chants; Hymns, etc. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr. b. 1944 Topics: Covenant; Covenant; Covenant; Hope; Kingdom/Reign of God; Love of God for Us; Salvation; Morning Prayer Gospel Canticle; The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundasy and Weekdays); The Liturgical Year The Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Jun3 24) Adapter of "Gospel Canticle (Benedictus)" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

William Vincent Wallace

1812 - 1865 Person Name: William Vincent Wallace, 1813-1865 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Lord Jesus Christ - His Advent and Nativity Composer of "[Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace]" in The Book of Praise

Adolphe Adam

1803 - 1856 Person Name: Adolphe-Charles Adam, 1803-1856 Topics: Jesus Christ Advent and Nativity; Jesus Advent and Nativity Author of "O Holy Night" in African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal Adolph Charles Adam, born at Paris, 1803; entered the conservatory, 1817; composed several operas; went to London 1832, but soon returned to Paris, where he died, May 2, 1856, aged 53. His remans wer followed to the grave by three thousand persons; and at his death he left some music and his memoirs for publication. He was a very active composer; and among his operas are "Richard Coeur de Lion," "Le Postillon de Lonjumeau," "La Chalet," and many other popular operas. A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876