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Ellen Jane Lorenz

1907 - 1996 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Arranger of "IN BABILONE" in The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church Ellen Jane Lorenz (Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter) was born in 1907 in Dayton, OH. A descendant of the well known publishing family of Lorenz, she served as editor for the company for 36 years. She earned a Masters of Sacred Music degree from Wittenberg University in 1971. Her PhD thesis was transformed into the book Glory, Hallelujah: the Story of the Campmeeting Spiritual published by Abingdon Press in 1980. She was well known as a composer and received many commissions for anthems, cantatas, vocal and instrumental works. See also the Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter archival collection at Wright State University Special Collections and Archives. Also used pseudonyms: Hadler, Rosemary, 1907-1996 James, Allen, 1907-1996 Mary Louise VanDyke

Kenneth D. Smith

b. 1928 Person Name: Kenneth D. Smith, b. 1928 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Harmonizer of "STUTTGART" in Worship (3rd ed.)

William Boyce

1711 - 1779 Person Name: William Boyce, 1711-1779 Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Composer of "HALTON HOLGATE" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New William Boyce (baptised 1711 – d. 7 February 1779) was an English composer and organist. See also in: Wikipedia

Arthur Sullivan

1842 - 1900 Person Name: A. S. Sullivan Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Composer of "FORMOSA" in Laudes Domini Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army bandmaster and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1884), and Yeomen of the Guard (1888). These operettas satirized the court and everyday life in Victorian times. Although he composed some anthems, in the area of church music Sullivan is best remembered for his hymn tunes, written between 1867 and 1874 and published in The Hymnary (1872) and Church Hymns (1874), both of which he edited. He contributed hymns to A Hymnal Chiefly from The Book of Praise (1867) and to the Presbyterian collection Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867). A complete collection of his hymns and arrangements was published posthumously as Hymn Tunes by Arthur Sullivan (1902). Sullivan steadfastly refused to grant permission to those who wished to make hymn tunes from the popular melodies in his operettas. Bert Polman

Elizabeth Mills

1805 - 1829 Person Name: Elizabeth K. Mills, 1805-1829 Scripture: Haggai 2:4 Author of "O Land of Rest, for Thee I Sigh" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4 Mills, Elizabeth, née King, daughter of Philip King, was born at Stoke Newington in 1805; married to Thomas Mills, M.P., and died at Finsbury Place, London, April 21, 1829. Her popular hymn:— We speak of the realms of the blest. [Heaven] is thus annotated in Miller's Singers and Songs, &c, 1869, p. 483: "We are much indebted to John Remington Mills, Esq., M.P. for information about this hymn, written by his accomplished relative. The original has 6 st. and was composed after reading ‘Bridges on the 119th Psalm' (on ver. 44, p. 116), ‘We speak of heaven, but oh! to be there.' . . . Already deservedly a favourite, new interest will be added to this hymn when we know that the authoress was early called to ‘the realms of the blest,' of which she sang so sweetly, and that she wrote this hymn a few weeks before her death." The text of this hymn is usually given in an imperfect form. The corrections are supplied by W. F. Stevenson in his Hymns for Church and Home, 1873, "Children's Hymns," No. 151, and the note thereon. Few children's hymns have been received with more favour. It is found in almost every hymn-book published for Children in Great Britain and America during the last fifty years. In some collections it begins, "We sing of the land of the blest"; and in others,"We talk of the land of the blest," --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

William Miller

1801 - 1878 Person Name: William Miller, 1801-1878 Scripture: Haggai 2:4 Composer of "WE'LL WORK TILL JESUS COMES" in The Christian Hymnary. Bks. 1-4

H. Ecuyer

Person Name: H. Écuyer Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Translator (French) of "Oh come, oh come, Emmanuel" in The Book of Praise

David Willcocks

1919 - 2015 Person Name: David Willcocks (1919-) Scripture: Haggai 1:15, 2:1-9 Harmonizer (alternate refrain) of "VENI EMMMANUEL" in Common Praise (1998)

Roland Tabell

b. 1934 Person Name: Roland Tabell, 1934- Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Arranger of "VENI EMMANUEL" in The Covenant Hymnal

John Bacchus Dykes

1823 - 1876 Person Name: John B. Dykes Scripture: Haggai 2:7 Composer of "ALFORD" in The Worshiping Church As a young child John Bacchus Dykes (b. Kingston-upon-Hull' England, 1823; d. Ticehurst, Sussex, England, 1876) took violin and piano lessons. At the age of ten he became the organist of St. John's in Hull, where his grandfather was vicar. After receiving a classics degree from St. Catherine College, Cambridge, England, he was ordained in the Church of England in 1847. In 1849 he became the precentor and choir director at Durham Cathedral, where he introduced reforms in the choir by insisting on consistent attendance, increasing rehearsals, and initiating music festivals. He served the parish of St. Oswald in Durham from 1862 until the year of his death. To the chagrin of his bishop, Dykes favored the high church practices associated with the Oxford Movement (choir robes, incense, and the like). A number of his three hundred hymn tunes are still respected as durable examples of Victorian hymnody. Most of his tunes were first published in Chope's Congregational Hymn and Tune Book (1857) and in early editions of the famous British hymnal, Hymns Ancient and Modern. Bert Polman