[When my earthly day is waning]

[When my earthly day is waning]

Composer: Haldor Lillenas
Published in 16 hymnals


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Composer: Haldor Lillenas

Rv Haldor Lillenas DMus Norway/USA 1885-1959. Born at Stord, near Bergen, Norway, his father sold their 15 acre farm in Norway and emigrated to the U.S., buying a farm in Colton, SD. After he built a sod house, the family (wife and three chldren) also came to SD in 1887. They moved to Astoria, Oregon in 1889, where Lillenas learned English and began writing song lyrics at an early age. In 1900 the family moved again to Roseville, MN, where he worked as a farm laborer and began attending a Lutheran high school at Hawick, MN. He sold a few songs at age 19. At age 21 he began writing more songs, encouraged by some earlier ones becoming popular (“He set me free” was one). His mother died in 1906 and his father returned to ND, but Li… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [When my earthly day is waning]
Composer: Haldor Lillenas
Incipit: 34555 51531 44444
Copyright: Copyright 1912. Renewed 1939 by Haldor Lillenas. Assigned to Nazarene Publishing House.

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Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Hymn Favorites for Organ Book Five
    Composer/Editor Ethel Tench Rogers
    Published By: Lillenas Publishing Company (1971) pp. 10

Media

The Cyber Hymnal #7688
Text: Where They Need No Sun
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Sacred Selections for the Church #409

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The Cyber Hymnal #7688

Include 14 pre-1979 instances
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