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Richard Storrs Willis
1819 - 1900 Person Name: N. S. Willis Translator (sts. 1-3) of "Fairest Lord Jesus" in Offices of Worship and Hymns Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, notably of hymn music. One of his hymns is "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1850), with lyrics by Edmund Sears. He was also a music critic and journal editor.
Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819, in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Chauncey Hall, the Boston Latin School, and Yale College where he was a member of Skull and Bones in 1841.
Willis then went to Germany, where he studied six years under Xavier Schnyder and Moritz Hauptmann. While there, he became a personal friend of Felix Mendelssohn. After returning to America, Willis served as music critic for the New York Tribune, The Albion, and The Musical Times, for which he served as editor for a time. He joined the New-York American-Music Association, an organization which promoted the work native of naturalized American composers. He reviewed the organization's first concert for their second season, held December 30, 1856, in the Musical World, as a "creditable affair, all things considered".
Willis began his own journal, Once a Month: A Paper of Society, Belles-Lettres and Art, and published its first issue in January 1862.
Willis died on May 7, 1900. His interment was located at Woodlawn Cemetery.
His works and music compilations include:
Church Chorals and Choir Studies (1850)
Our Church Music (1856)
Waif of Song (1876)
Pen and Lute (1883)
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Robert Willis
b. 1947 Author of "The kingdom is upon you!" Priest of the Church of England, Dean o Canterbury Canterbury (2001-. ). Previously (1992-2000) Dean of Hereford Cathedral.
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T. A. Willis
Author of "Part in peace, is day before us?" in Hymns of the Christian Life
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Ralph Williston
1775 - 1839 Editor of "" in A Choice Selection of Evangelical Hymns, from various authors Ralph Williston; began as a Methodist minister; then became a Lutheran minister; while pastor at Zion Church, Mott St., NYC, he changed to the Episcopal Church and brought the whole congregation along with him; when that church burned he travelled to Upper Marlborough, Md. and then to Wilmington, Del. where he was pastor of the Old Swedes Episcopal Church; after the death of his wife in 1825 he went to Tallahassee, Fl., then to Ithaca, N.Y., Jersey City, N.J., Belleville, N.J., and then to Patterson, N.J. where he was pastor of St. Paul Church for several years; moved to Baltimore, Md., then to Williamsburgh (L.I.), N.Y., and finally to Little Neck (L.I.), N.Y., where he was pastor of Zion Church; b. West Springfield, Mass. Apr. 11, 1775; m. Ann Magdalen Resler; d. Hempstead Harbor, N.Y. Dec. 29, 1839)
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J. W. Willmarth
1835 - 1911 Author of "O Father, Lord of earth and heaven" Willmarth, James W., was born in Paris, where his father laboured as a Baptist minister, Dec. 23, 1835. He entered the American Baptist ministry in 1860. His hymn "O Father, Lord of earth and heaven" (Holy Baptism ) was written in 1867, in 6 stanzas of 4 lines. It was used at a public baptism at Wakefield, Massachusetts, June 30, 1867. In 1871 it was given, abbreviated to 4 stanzas, in the Baptist Praise Book. It was also rewritten in 5 stanzas, and included in the Baptist
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