Short Name: | Ebenezer Beesley |
Full Name: | Beesley, Ebenezer, 1840-1906 |
Birth Year: | 1840 |
Death Year: | 1906 |
Ebenezer Beesley was born December 14, 1840, in Oxfordshire, England. He had two wives. He married his first wife in March of 1859. They left England in April of 1859 to move to Salt Lake City. They travelled by foot and handcart from Omaha with a company of 250-300 people. He married his second wife in 1869. Beesley was a musician and music teacher who directed the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Utah from 1880-1889 and other choirs in Utah. He wrote several hymns and edited Latter-day Saints Psalmody, the first LDS hymn book with both music and words.
Dianne Shapiro from Find a Grave website, "Ebenezer Beesley Composed Nearly a Dozen Hymns in the Current Hymnbook and Conducted the Choir for Almost a Decade," from The Tabernacle Choir Blog, March 13, 2014, and "Beesley, Sarah Hancock, [Reminiscences] in Handcart Stories" from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints website "Pioneer Database" (accessed 1-1-2021)
Tunes by Ebenezer Beesley (30) | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[Your sweet little rose-bud has left you] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[With hearts prepared, with one accord] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[When Christ was born in Bethlehem] (Beesley) | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | 17654 32123 65321 |
[When called to the throne of your Lord] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[What voice salutes the startled ear] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[Welcome, welcome, Sabbath morning] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 4 | 54531 76543 42543 |
[Welcome happy Sunday] | H. Beesley (Composer) | 4 | 33346 51554 32333 |
[We meet again in Sabbath School] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
['Tis sweet to sing the matchless love] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[Sing we now at parting] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 5 | 32155 31565 32321 |
[Sing to the great Jehovah's praise] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[Reverently and meekly now] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 4 | 32115 43212 34217 |
[Merry, merry children, sweetly sing] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[Lord, we ask Thee, ere we part] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[Little ones, come! we will worship together] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[Let us oft speak kind words to each other] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 4 | 55111 32176 62572 |
[Let Saints rejoice, the night is past] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[Hosts of children, every morning] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
HARTS (Milgrove) | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Arranger) | 2 | 55112 23114 32123 |
HANCOCK (Beesley) | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer) | 3 | 54333 23453 11123 |
WOOBURN GREEN | E. Beesley (Composer) | 5 | 31234 32171 33354 |
EBENEZER (Beesley) | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer) | 3 | 15436 54321 56788 |
DESERET | Ebenezer Beesley (Composer) | 4 | |
[Come, children, let us join and sing] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
[Children, gladly join and sing] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 3 | |
[Bandera, alto en el monte] | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840-1906 (Composer) | 2 | 51112 32354 32232 |
[As the sun, arrayed in splendor] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
ANIMATION (Beesley) | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer) | 4 | 51117 16517 13275 |
[Accept the tribute of our hearts] | E. Beesley (Composer) | 2 | |
ABRAM | Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer) | 3 | 33215 43321 71325 |