Enge und schmal

Author: G. F. Root

Root, George F., MUS. DOC, born in Sheffield, Berkshire County, Mass., Aug. 30, 1820. He is much more widely known as a composer of popular music than as a hymn writer. Four of his hymns are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs & Solos, 1878. Nos. 16, 100, 293, and 297. A sympathetic biographical sketch, with portrait, is in The Tonic Sol-Fa Reporter, Sep. 1886. He died Aug. 6, 1895. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)… Go to person page >

Translator: W. R.

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First Line: Warum noch warten? Warum verzieh'n?
Title: Enge und schmal
English Title: Narrow and Strait
Author: G. F. Root
Translator: W. R.
Language: German
Refrain First Line: Enge und schmal
Publication Date: 1897
Copyright: Public Domain

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Evangeliums-Lieder 1 und 2 (Gospel Hymns) #260

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