[Nearer the cross! my heart can say]

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[Nearer the cross! my heart can say]

Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Published in 142 hymnals

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Composer: Phoebe Palmer Knapp

As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	[Nearer the cross! my heart can say]
Composer:	Phoebe Palmer Knapp
Meter:	8.6.8.6 with refrain
Incipit:	32123 55515 53323
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Organ Solo

Gospel Hymn Devotions - Number Two: Fourteen Transcriptions for Organ - Standard or Spinet Keyboards
Composer/Editors Dorothy Wells; Stewart Landon
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1971) pp. 28
The Organist Volume 75 Number 1 March 1971: A Bi-Monthly Publication for Church Organists
Composer/Editors Roger C. Wilson; Stewart Landon
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1971) pp. 48
Gospel Hymn Voluntaries Number One For Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1964) pp. 6
Lorenz's Communion Hymn Voluntaries: For Organ
Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1953) pp. 28
Lorenz's Gospel Hymn Voluntaries Number 1 for Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1952) pp. 6
Lorenz's Gospel Hymn Voluntaries for Organ: Based on Familiar Gospel Hymns
Composer/Editor Roy E. Nolte
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1952) pp. 6
The Organist Volume 55 Number 1 March 1951: Voluntaries for the Church Organ
Composer/Editors Rob Roy Peery; Roy E. Nolte
Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1951) pp. 14