[The wise men of old saw a beautiful star]

[The wise men of old saw a beautiful star]

Composer: Frederick Augustus Fillmore
Published in 2 hymnals


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Composer: Frederick Augustus Fillmore

Born: May 15, 1856, Par­is, Ill­i­nois. Died: No­vem­ber 15, 1925, Ter­race Park, Ohio. Buried: Mil­ford, Ohio. Frederick Augustus Fillmore, who was born on May 15, 1856, in Paris, IL, one of seven children, five sons and two daughters, born to Augustus Damon and Hannah Lockwood Fillmore. His father was a preacher in the Christian Church, as well as a composer, songbook compiler, and hymn publisher who developed his own system of musical notation using numbers on the staff in place of note heads. Augustus eventually settled in Cincinnati, OH, and established a music publishing business there. Until 1906, there was no official distinction between "Christian Churches" and "Churches of Christ." The names were used pretty much inte… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [The wise men of old saw a beautiful star]
Composer: Frederick Augustus Fillmore
Incipit: 13334 33212 15667
Key: D Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Cyber Hymnal #392
Text: Beautiful Star
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The Cyber Hymnal #392

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