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Christ to heaven is gone before
Author: George Rawson Appears in 14 hymnals Used With Tune: MERCY
Christ to heaven is gone before
HERALD ANGELS
Appears in 705 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Christ to Heaven is gone before
HERALD ANGELS
MORE LIKE JESUS
Appears in 26 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. D. Incipit: 33322 11222 14323 Used With Text: Christ to heaven is gone before
MORE LIKE JESUS
Christ to Heaven is gone before
Author: George Rawson (1807- ) Hymnal: Carmina Sanctorum, a selection of hymns and songs of praise with tunes #225 (1886) Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ Scripture: Hebrews 6:20 Languages: English
Christ to Heaven is gone before
Christ to heaven is gone before
Author: George Rawson Hymnal: The Voice of Thanksgiving No. 3 #291 (1921) Topics: Christ Resurrection and Ascension
Christ to heaven is gone before
Christ to heaven is gone before
Author: George Rawson Hymnal: The Praise Hymnary #304 (1898) Topics: Christ Risen
Christ to heaven is gone before
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Composer of "HERALD ANGELS" in Carmina Sanctorum Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Louis M. Gottschalk
1829 - 1869 Person Name: Louis Moreau Gottschalk Composer of "GOTTSCHALK" in The Coronation Hymnal Louis Moreau Gottschalk USA 1829-1869. Born in New Orleans, LA, to a Jewish father and Creole mother, he had six siblings and half-siblings. They lived in a small cottage in New Orleans. He later moved in with relatives (his grandmother and a nurse). He played the piano from an early age and was soon recognized as a prodigy by new Orleans bourgeois establishments. He made a performance debut at the new St. Charles Hotel in 1840. At 13 he left the U.S. And went to Europe with his father, as they realized he needed classical training to fulfill his musical ambitions. The Paris Conservatory rejected him without hearing him play on the grounds of his nationality. Chopin heard him play a concert there and remarked, “Give me your hand, my child, I predict that you will become the king of pianists. Franz Liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan also recognized his extreme talent. He became a composer and piano virtuoso, traveling far and wide performing, first back to the U.S., then Cuba, Puerto Rico, Central and South America. He was taken with music he heard in those places and composed his own. He returned to the States, resting in NJ, then went to New York City. There he mentored a young Venezuelan student, Carreno, and became concerned that she succeed. He was only able to give her a few lessons, yet she would remember him fondly and play his music the rest of her days. A year after meeting Gottschalk, she performed for President Lincoln and went on to become a renowned concern pianist, earning the nickname “Valkyrie of the Piano”. Gottschalk was also interested in art and made connections with notable figures of the New York art world. He traded one of his compositions to his art friend, Frederic Church, for one of Church's landscape paintings. By 1860 Gootschalk had established himself as the best known pianist in the New World. He supported the Union cause during the Civil War and returned to New Orleans only occasionally for concerts. He traveled some 95,000 miles and gave 1000 concerts by 1865. He was forced to leave the U.S. later that year as a result of a scandelous affair with a student at Oakland Female Seminary in Oakland, CA. He never came back to the U.S. He went to South America giving frequent concerts. At one, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he collapsed from yellow fever as he played a concert. He died three weeks later, never recovering from the collapse, possibly from an overdose of quinine or an abdominal infection. He was buried in Brooklyn, NY. Though some of his works were destroyed or disappeared after his death, a number of them remain and have been recorded by various artists.
John Perry
Louis M. Gottschalk
George Rawson
1807 - 1889 Author of "Christ to heaven is gone before" in The Coronation Hymnal Born: June 5, 1807, Leeds, England.
Died: March 25, 1889, Clifton, England.
Buried: Arno’s Vale Cemetery, Bristol, England.
Pseudonym: A Leeds Layman.
Rawson, George, was born June 5, 1807, at Leeds, in which town he practised for many years as a solicitor. In 1853 he assisted the Congregational ministers of Leeds in the compilation of Psalms, Hymns, and Passages of Scripture for Christian Worship, a volume commonly known as the Leeds Hymn-book. Mr. Rawson was a member of the Congregational body. In 1858 he also assisted Rev. Dr. Green and other Baptist ministers in the preparation of Psalms and Hymns for the use of the Baptist Denomination. A number of Mr. Rawson's own compositions first appeared in this and in the Leeds Hymn-book In 1876 he published his Hymns, Verses and Chants (Hodder and Stoughton, London), including his previously published hymns, and containing (exclusive of chants) 80 original pieces. In 1885 most of these, with several additional hymns, were published by the R. T. S. under the title Songs of Spiritual Thought. Mr. Rawson died March 25, 1889.
His hymns are distinguished by refinement of thought, and delicacy and propriety of language; and if they do not attain the first rank among the songs of the Christian Church, many are of great excellence. The most widely known are, "By Christ redeemed, in Christ restored;" "Come to our poor nature's night;" "Father in high heaven dwelling;" "In the dark and cloudy day;" and "Reaper, behold the fields are white." In the Leeds Hymn-book, 1853, and the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858, there are also several recasts of and additions to the hymns of other writers. In addition to Mr. Rawson's hymns which are annotated under their respective first lines, the following are also in common use:-
i. From the Leeds Hymn-book, 1853.
1. Captain and Saviour of the host. Burial.
2. Give dust to dust: and here we leave. Burial.
3. God the Lord is King-—before him. Ps. xcix.
4. In the dark and cloudy day. Consolation.
5. Soul, thy week of toil is ended. Saturday Evening.
6. Though the night be very long. Resignation.
ii. From the Baptist Psalms & Hymns, 1858.
7. Beautiful, desired, and dear. Public Worship.
8. Blessed are they who have not seen. Faith.
9. Blessed is the faithful heart. Faithfulness.
10. Christ to heaven is gone before. Ascension.
11. God the Father, be Thou near. Evening.
12. He fell asleep in Christ the Lord. Burial.
13. Immersed beneath the closing wave. Holy Baptism.
14. Lord, we bless Thee, Who hast given. Holy Communion.
15. My Father God, with filial awe. Abiding in God.
16. Our eyes we lift up to the hills. The Lord the Pastor's Keeper.
17. Reaper, behold the fields are ripe [white] . Missions.
18. Rise, heart, thy Lord arose. Sunday.
19. Upon the holy mountains high. Security of the Church.
iii. From the Leeds Sunday School Hymn Book, 1858.
20. And will [How shall] the mighty God. The Holy Ghost.
21. Jesus, the Lord, our Righteousness. Jesus, the children's Friend.
22. O Thou Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd.
iv. From Dr. Allon's Supplemental Hymns, 1868.
23. My Father, it is good for me. Trust.
24. Thou Who hast known the careworn breast. Evening.
25. Walking with Thee, my God. Walking with God.
v. From Mr. Rawson's Hymns, Verses, &c. 1876.
26. God is our Refuge; God our Strength. Ps. xlvi.
27. Lo, a voice from heaven hath said. Burial.
28. Lord, let me pray. I know not how. The Holy Spirit desired.
29. O pallid, gentle, grief-worn face. Easter Eve.
30. Out of the depths, the gulfs, the night. Ps. cxxx.
31. This, the old world's day of rest. Saturday Evening. [1854-7.]
32. Thou who Thyself didst sanctify. Ordination. [1854-7.]
33. Voices of the deep blue night. The Heavenly Call.
34. With gladness we worship. Public Worship.
Mr. Rawson is represented by about 50 hymns in the collections of the present day. It must be noted that in the Hymns, &c, 1876, and in the Songs, &c, 1885, the texts of the hymns have been revised, and in several instances been weakened thereby. [Rev.W. R. Stevenson, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Rawson, George, p. 952, i. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:—
1. Come, Spirit of the Lord. From his “How shall the mighty God," in his Hymns, Verses, &c, 1876, No. 43.
2. Each trial hath a gentle voice. Patience and Hope. In the 1880 Supplement to the Baptist Psalms and Hymns. This is dated 1857. It is not in the author's Hymns, 1876.
3. Stand up before your God. All Saints. In the 1880 Baptist Psalms and Hymns this is dated 1865. It is not in Rawson's Hymns, 1876.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
George Rawson
