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Anonymous

Person Name: Unknown Composer of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Glory to God In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

Kermit Moldenhauer

b. 1949 Person Name: Kermit Moldenhauer, b. 1949 Arranger of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Christian Worship (2008)

Augustus Nelson

1863 - 1949 Person Name: Augustus Nelson, 1863-1949 Translator (from Swedish) of "Prepare the Way, O Zion!" in The Cyber Hymnal Augustus Nelson (b. Asarum, Bleking, Sweden, 1863; d. Mankato, MN, 1949) graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and did graduate work in philosophy and history at Yale University and at Augustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois. During his ministry he served parishes in Michigan, Illinois, Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Bert Polman

Charles P. Price

1920 - 1999 Person Name: Charles P. Price, b. 1920 Adapter of "Oh, blest is Christ that came" in The Hymnal 1982 Price was born in Pittsburgh in 1920 and educated at Harvard University, Virgina Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He studied piano with Elizabeth and Ferguson Webster and was ordained as a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Church, Diocese of Pittsburgh. He served churches in Pennsylvania and New York City before becoming a professor at Virginia Theological Seminary (1956-1963). From 1963 to 1972 he was preacher to the university and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University before returning to Virginia Seminary as professor of systematic theology (1972-1989). Price was a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission (1967-1985) and the Committee on Texts for The Hymnal 1982 (1976-1982), as well as deputy to the General Convention (1976-1985) and chaplain to the House of Deputies (1979-1985) for the Episcopal Church. His books include Introducing the Proposed Book of Common Prayer (1976) and, with Louis Weil, Liturgy for Living (1979). A number of his hymns and translations appear in The Hymnal 1982. --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion

Emmanuel Poppen

1874 - 1974 Person Name: E. P. Arranger of "BEREDEN" in American Lutheran Hymnal Rev. Emanuel Poppen; b. 1874, Dundee, Perth col, Ontario. Luth. pastor, Ohio Synod, Sydney, Ohio Evangelical Lutheran Hymnal, 1908

Philip M. Young

b. 1937 Person Name: Phillip M. Young Translator of "Prepare the Royal Highway" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal

Frans Michael Franzén

1772 - 1847 Person Name: Frans M. Franzèn Author of "Prepare the Way, O Zion!" in The Cyber Hymnal Franzén, Franz Michael, was born at Uleabôrg, Finland, in 1772, and educated at the University of Abo, where he became Librarian and Professor of Literary History. He was subsequently Minister at Kumla, Orebro, Sweden, and then of Santa Clara, in Stockholm. He was consecrated Bishop of Hernosand, in 1841, and died there in 1847. (See Supplement to Longfellow's Poets and Poetry of Europe.) Of his pieces one is in English common use. It begins "Jesum haf i ständigt minne," translated by Mrs. Charles in her Christian Life in Song, 1858, p. 250, as "Jesus in Thy memory keep" (Looking unto Jesus). Usually it begins with stanza ii., "Look to Jesus, till, reviving." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Lisa M. Clark

b. 1982 Person Name: Lisa M. Clark, b. 1982 Author of "We Light the Advent Candle" in One and All Rejoice

Henry V. Gerike

Person Name: Henry V. Gerike, b. 1948 Arranger of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Lutheran Service Book Henry V. Gerike arranged the tune: LAND OF REST in Lutheran Service Book, 2006, #937

David W. Music

b. 1949 Harmonizer of "BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERRAN" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal David W. Music is Professor of Church Music at Baylor University, where he has taught since 2002. Music is the author of William J. Reynolds: Church Musician (2013), Christian Hymnody in Twentieth-Century Britain and America: An Annotated Bibliography (2001), Instruments in Church: A Collection of Source Documents (1998), and Hymnology: A Collection of Source Readings (1996). He has co-authored or edited four other books, as well as publishing editions of A Selection of Shape-Note Folk Hymns for A-R Editions' Recent Researches in American Music series (2005), John Weldon's opera The Judgment of Paris for the Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era series (1999), and Oliver Holden (1765-1844): Selected Works in the Music of the New American Nation series (Garland, 1998). He served as Editor of The Hymn (the journal of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, 1990-96), as Chair of the New Materials Subcommittee for The Baptist Hymnal (1991), and as chair of the text and tunes committee and one of the editors of Celebrating Grace (2010). He is a member of the Society for American Music; the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada; the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers; the Baptist History and Heritage Society, and the Baptist Church Music Conference, which he served as President (2001-02) and Educational Division Vice-President (1992-1994). --See Baylor University bio (03 July 2014).

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