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Arranger: Catherine A. Carroll

"Mother Catherine A Carroll, RSCJ, was a music professor at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart as well as one of the pillars of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music at Manhattanville. Along with Josephine Morgan, R.S.C.J., J. Vincent Higginson, Margaret Leddy, Theodore Marier and Mary B. Saunders, Mother Carroll was on the committee that produced the well-loved Pius X Hymnal, published by McLaughlin and Reilly. The Catherine Carroll Prize at Manhattanville College was created in 1981 in honor of Sr. Catherine Carroll, distinguished Professor of Music Theory, by her colleagues upon the occasion of her retirement. Awarded annually to an outstanding Freshman or Sophomore student in the music theory classes by the Theory Faculty.… Go to person page >

Composer: David Gregor Corner

David Gregor Corner, born circa 1585 in Hirschberg, Germany (now Jelenia Góra, Poland) was a German Benedictine abbot, hymn writer and theologian best known for his influential 1631 Gross Catholisches Gesängbuch ("Great Catholic Hymnal"). He studied theology at Prague, Graz and Vienna, where he earned a doctorate. He became a pastor in Retz in 1614. In 1628 he became a novice monk at Göttweig Abbey. By 1636, Corner was the abbot of Göttweig, where he became a leading figure of the Counter-Reformation, and was made Rector of the University of Vienna in 1638. He died 9 January 1648 at Göttweig. His magnum opus, the Catholische Gesängbuch was published in 1625, and a later publication from 1631 contained 546 hymns and 276 melodies (in… Go to person page >