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Christian H. Rinck

1770 - 1846 Person Name: Johann C. H. Rinck, 1770-1846 Composer (melody) of "ABEND" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck; b. 1770, Elgersburg, Thueringen; d. 1846, Darmstadt Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Kenneth G. Finlay

1882 - 1974 Person Name: K. G. Finlay, 1882- Composer of "GLENFINLAS" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes

John Baptiste Calkin

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin Composer of "[Jesus, high in glory]" in Childhood Songs John Baptiste Calkin United Kingdom 1827-1905. Born in London, he was reared in a musical atmosphere. Studying music under his father, and with three brothers, he became a composer, organist, and music teacher. At 19, he was appointed organist, precenter, and choirmaster at St. Columbia's College, Dublin, Ireland, 1846 to 1853. From 1853 to 1863 we was organist and choirmaster at Woburn Chapel, London. From 1863 to 1868, he was organist of Camden Road Chapel. From 1870 to 1884 he was organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at Guildhall School of Music and concentrated on teaching and composing. He was also a professor of music and on the council of Trinity College, London, and a member of the Philharmonic Society (1862). In 1893 he was a fellow of the College of Organists. John and wife, Victoire, had four sons, each following a musical carer. He wrote much music for organ and scored string arrangements, sonatas, duos, etc. He died at Hornsey Rise Gardens. John Perry

M. H. McKee

1879 - 1955 Person Name: Miss H. B. McKeever, 1807-1887 Author of "Jesus, high in glory" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Martin Hall McKee, known as Mark, born in Texas, died in Texas Dianne Shapiro, from Find a Grave website (accessed 6/20/2022)

Friedrich Filitz

1804 - 1876 Person Name: F. Filitz, 1804-1876 Composer of "CASWALL" in Methodist Hymn and Tune Book Friedrich Filitz PhD Germany 1804-1876. Born at Arnstadt. Thuringia, he was a German composer and musicologist. He collected church music. He also studied philosophy. In 1833 he worked in Berlin as a music critic and at other employment. He was also a music historian. With Ludwig Erck, he published a collection of 15th & 17th Century chorales in 1845. He moved to Munich and published a chorale book in 1847. His legacy of vauable church music was donated to the Bavarian State Library, where it has made many forgotten works available once again. He died in Bonn, Germany. John Perry

F. W. Harris

1815 - 1872 Person Name: F. W. Harris (1814-1872) Author of "Jesus, high in glory" in Little Children's Book Harris, Frederick William, M.A., was born in 1814, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840). Taking Holy Orders in 1838, he became in 1855 Vicar of Medmenham, diocese of Oxford, and died April 17, 1872. His excellent hymn, "It is finished! It is finished! all the untold agony" (Good Friday), is in Thring's Collection, 1882. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Harriet Burns MacKeever

1807 - 1887 Person Name: Harriet Burn MacKeever Author of "Jesus, high in glory" in Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church

Heinrich Lonas

Harmonizer of "ABEND" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church

J. Erskine Clarke

1827 - 1920 Person Name: J. Erskine Clark Author of "Jesus, high in glory" in The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged, as adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1892 John Erskine Clarke (1827–1920) was a British clergyman who issued the first parish magazine. He established several other religious publications and was responsible for founding churches schools and hospitals in Battersea. He also competed at Henley Royal Regatta. See also in: Wikipedia