Tune: AFFLICTION (Willis)

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AFFLICTION (Willis)

Composer: Richard Storrs Willis
Published in 1 hymnal

Composer: Richard Storrs Willis

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… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	AFFLICTION (Willis)
Composer:	Richard Storrs Willis
Meter:	8.7.8.7
Incipit:	12333 45555 43221
Key:	g minor
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

O my God, by thee forsaken

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Arrangements

Arrangements

Organ Solo

80 Chorale Preludes: German Masters of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Composer/Editors Hermann Keller; Georg Bohm
Published By: C. F. Peters Corporation (1951) pp. 5
The Church Organist's Golden Treasury Volume One -- An Anthology of Choral Preludes: Carl F. Pfatteicher
Composer/Editors Archibald T. Davison; Georg Boehm
Published By: Oliver Ditson Company (1949) pp. 10-12
Seventy-nine Chorales for the Organ Opus 28
Composer/Editor Marcel Dupre
Published By: The H. W. Gray Company, Inc. (1932) pp. 4