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David Evans

1874 - 1948 Person Name: David Evans, 1874-1948 Harmonizer of "BROMLEY" in Together in Song David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

1714 - 1788 Person Name: Karl P. E. Bach Composer of "ROCKINGHAM (Miller)" in The Cyber Hymnal Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, born at Weimar, March 14, 1714; music director at Hamburg, a prolific composer, great in all departments; as a writer of sings, odes, pslams, etc., he surpassed all his contemporaries; died at Hamburg, of consumption, Sept. 14, 1788. A Dictionary of Musical Information by John W. Moore, Boston: Oliver, Ditson & Company, 1876

Daniel Vetter

1621 - 1721 Person Name: Daniel Vetter, d. 1721 Composer (attributed to) of "DAS WALT' GOTT VATER" in The Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada and the United Church of Canada

Frank Sewall

1837 - 1915 Composer of "SEWALL" in The Cyber Hymnal

Samuel Webbe

1770 - 1843 Harmonizer of "ROCKINGHAM" in The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 Samuel Webbe, Jr. (1770-1843), adapted the tune RICHMOND. He was organist at Paradise Street Unitarian Church, Liverpool (1798). Later he succeeded his father as organist at the Spanish Ambassador’s Chapel, London (1817), and then St. Nicholas’ Church and St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Chapel, Liverpool. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion, 1993

Emilio Pieraccini

1828 - 1902 Person Name: E. Pieraccini Composer of "" in Hymnal

R. W. Dixon

1806 - 1876 Composer of "STAINCLIFFE" in Cân a Mawl Dixon, Robert William. (Wapping, Middlesex, England, c.1805--December 6, 1876, Hastings, Sussex). "To R.W. Dixon, Esq., J.P. and D.L. (Fellow of the Hist. Soc. of Gt. Br.), for a large number of must tuneful and original compositions from his private MSS." -Preface, Burney Tune-Book. (1875). London: F. Pitman. [CASTLE EDEN is #168] See also: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~elliff/p3.htm#i563 for Elliff name and variants in the UK for census information, which lists his occupation as follows: Occupation 7 Apr 1861 J.P. & Commissioner of Taxes. (1861 Census Returns - RG9/3701). --In part from DNAH Archives.