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George Frideric Handel

1685 - 1759 Person Name: George Frederick Handel Composer (introduction) of "HANNAH (Refrain only)" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hymnals. A number of hymnal editors, including Lowell Mason, took themes from some of Handel's oratorios and turned them into hymn tunes; ANTIOCH is one example, long associated with “Joy to the World.” Bert Polman

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Composer of "[I know that my Redeemer liveth] " in Revival Hymns and Choruses James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Jessie H. Brown

Author of "My Redeemer Liveth" in Redemption Songs See Pounds, Jessie Brown, 1861-1921

Joseph Overholt

Alterer of "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

Jessie Brown Pounds

1861 - 1921 Person Name: Jessie B. Pounds Author of "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Jessie Brown Pounds was born in Hiram, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland on 31 August 1861. She was not in good health when she was a child so she was taught at home. She began to write verses for the Cleveland newspapers and religious weeklies when she was fifteen. After an editor of a collection of her verses noted that some of them would be well suited for church or Sunday School hymns, J. H. Fillmore wrote to her asking her to write some hymns for a book he was publishing. She then regularly wrote hymns for Fillmore Brothers. She worked as an editor with Standard Publishing Company in Cincinnati from 1885 to 1896, when she married Rev. John E. Pounds, who at that time was a pastor of the Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. A memorable phrase would come to her, she would write it down in her notebook. Maybe a couple months later she would write out the entire hymn. She is the author of nine books, about fifty librettos for cantatas and operettas and of nearly four hundred hymns. Her hymn "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" was sung at President McKinley's funeral. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

Keith Phillips

Arranger of "HANNAH (Refrain only)" in The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration

Jon Drevits

b. 1928 Person Name: Jon Drevits, 1928- Arranger of "[I know that my Redeemer liveth] " in Revival Hymns and Choruses

Purcell James Mansfield

1889 - 1968 Person Name: P. J. Mansfield Arranger of "[I know that my Redeemer liveth]" in Redemption Songs

Wilhelm Baumgartner

1820 - 1867 Person Name: W. Baumgartner Composer of "O DASS ICH TAUSEND ZUNGEN HÄTTE" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Wilhelm Baumgartner was born in Rorshach, Switzerland, and died in Zurich. He was mainly a choral conductor, leading several choirs in Zurich, but was also a pianist, composer, educator and choral conductor. He was a friend of Richard Wagner and Gottfried Keller. Dianne Shapiro, from Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century by Nick Strimple (New York: Amadeus Press, 2008) and "Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz" accessed online 1-30-2019

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