Search Results

Can I, a little child

Author: Rev. Robt. Moffat Appears in 9 hymnals Used With Tune: SAFE HOME

SAFE HOME

Appears in 45 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sir Arthur Sullivan Incipit: 33535 52252 55133 Used With Text: Can I, a little child

ST. MATTHEW'S, BAYSWATER

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Livesey Carrott Incipit: 51532 11653 42712 Used With Text: Can I, a little child

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Can I, a little child

Author: Robert Moffett Hymnal: The Children's Choir #d3 (1860)

Can I, a little child

Author: Robert Moffett Hymnal: The Canadian Warbler #d9 (1863)

Can I, a little child

Author: Robert Moffett Hymnal: Gospel Voices Supplemented #d25 (1890) Languages: English

1842 - 1900 Person Name: Sir Arthur Sullivan Composer of "SAFE HOME" in Missionary Hymnal Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

Livesey Carrott

1864 - 1900 Composer of "ST. MATTHEW'S, BAYSWATER" in The Church Missionary Hymn Book Born: Probably 1864, Boston, Lincolnshire, England. Died: Circa November 1900, Kensington, London, England. Carrott was in Skirbeck, Lincolnshire, in 1871. By 1881, he was in London. He played the organ at St. Matthew’s, Bayswater, West London, and at St. James’, Holloway, London. © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)

Robert Moffett

Person Name: Rev. Robt. Moffat Author of "Can I, a little child" in Missionary Hymnal Moffat, Robert, D.D., born at Ormiston, Dec. 21, 1795, and died Aug. 9, 1883. Dr. Moffat was engaged for many years as a missionary in Bechuanaland, and assisted in preparing a hymn-book for the use of the London Missionary Society's congregations in that country. He contributed thereto upwards of 250 original and translated hymns (see p. 756, ii.). His English hymn for children, "Can I, a little child?" (Missions) is very popular; it is dated 1841. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Go Ad-Free

User Links

User Links

Discover

Collections

Store

Connect

Search

Collections

Discover

Texts

Can I, a little child

Tunes

SAFE HOME

ST. MATTHEW'S, BAYSWATER

Instances

Can I, a little child

Can I, a little child

Can I, a little child

View 6 more instances

People

Arthur Sullivan

Livesey Carrott

Robert Moffett