Henry Lahee

Short Name: Henry Lahee
Full Name: Lahee, Henry, 1826-1912
Birth Year: 1826
Death Year: 1912

Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.

Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:

Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes

Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460

--www.hymntime.com/tch


Tunes by Henry Lahee (11)AsInstancesIncipitsort descending
WILD BELLSHenry Lahee (Composer)911176 54321 17654
ALL SAINTS (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)213517 13212 31432
NATIVITY (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)12333355 11321 66217
HOLY TRINITY (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)333432 23211 11433
[They're gathering homeward from every land] (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)233532 11111 51233
SACRIFICE (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)1034321 17123 443
PIETAS (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)235435 17765 36543
MAGI (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)351171 54322 13667
[Chant] (Lahee 51332)Lahee (Composer)251332 62117 1
ST. SERF (Lahee)H. Lahee (Composer)2453311 22561 11233
WIMBLETON (Lahee)Henry Lahee (Composer)956511 77321 77666
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