Ebenezer Beesley

Ebenezer Beesley
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)

Wikipedia Biography

Ebenezer Beesley (14 December 1840 – 21 March 1906) was a Latter-day Saint hymn writer and composer. The music for twelve of the hymns in the 1985 English-language hymnal of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) were written by him. Beesley was born in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. His parents joined the LDS Church when he was quite young and he was baptized a member of the church on 22 September 1849. After serving with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Beesley taught music in Tooele, and then for a time in Lehi, Utah. He then moved back to Salt Lake City where he died.

Tunes by Ebenezer Beesley (30)sort ascendingAsInstancesIncipit
[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)317654 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)454531 76543 42543
[Welcome happy Sunday]H. Beesley (Composer)433346 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)532155 31565 32321
[Sing to the great Jehovah's praise]E. Beesley (Composer)2
[Reverently and meekly now]E. Beesley (Composer)432115 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)455111 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)255112 23114 32123
HANCOCK (Beesley)Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer)354333 23453 11123
WOOBURN GREENE. Beesley (Composer)531234 32171 33354
EBENEZER (Beesley)Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer)315436 54321 56788
DESERETEbenezer 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)251112 32354 32232
[As the sun, arrayed in splendor]E. Beesley (Composer)2
ANIMATION (Beesley)Ebenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer)451117 16517 13275
[Accept the tribute of our hearts]E. Beesley (Composer)2
ABRAMEbenezer Beesley, 1840–1906 (Composer)333215 43321 71325

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