Stories of our Mormon hymns
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| Adams, Ophelia G. (a. 20th century |
hymn writer |
| Addison, Joseph (b. 1672 d. 1719) | public servant, man of letters |
| Alexander, Cecil Frances (b. 1818 d. 1895) | composer |
| Alford, Henry (b. 1810 d. 1871) | psalmodist |
| Alldrege, Ida Romney (b. 1892 d. 1943) | hymn writer |
| Alldridge, Richard (b. 1815 d. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Ambrose, Robert Steel (b. 1824 d. 1908) | organ, choir~ |
| Arnold, Matthew (b. 1822 d. 1888) | hymn writer |
| Asper, Frank Wilson (b. 1892 d. 1973) | organ |
| Auerbach, Herbert S. (b. 1882 d. 1945) | hymn writer |
| Bach, Johann Sebastian (b. 1685) | composer, compositeur |
| Baird, Robert Bell (b. 1855 d. 1916) | composer, hymn writer |
| Baker, Mary Anne (a. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Baring Gould, Sabine (b. 1834 d. 1924) | clergyman, lyricist |
| Barnby, Joseph (b. 1838 d. 1896) | conductor, composer |
| Bates, Katherine Lee (b. 1859 d. 1929) | hymnologist |
| Beesley, Ebenezer (b. 1840 d. 1906) | composer, musician |
| Beirly, A. (a. 19th century |
composer |
| Bennett, Archibald Flower (b. 1896) | hymn writer |
| Bennett, Wallace F. (a. 1920) | US senator, businessman |
| Benson, Louis Fitzgerald (b. 1855 d. 1930) | editor, psalmodist |
| Bernard of Clairvaux (b. 1090 d. 1153) | statesman, theologian |
| Bishop, Henry Rowley (b. 1786 d. 1855) | composer |
| Blenkhorn, Ada (a. 19th century |
hymn writer |
| Bliss, Philip Paul (b. 1838 d. 1876) | itinerant Baptist music teacher, hymn composer |
| Bode, John Ernest (b. 1816 d. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Bone, Mary Wagstaff (b. 1811 d. 1875) | hymn writer |
| Bortnyansky, Dmitri Stepanovich (b. 1752 d. 1825 a. 1783) | composer |
| Bradbury, William Batchelder (b. 1816 d. 1868) | composer, organ |
| Bridges, Robert Seymour (b. 1844 d. 1930) | hymn writer |
| Brooks, Phillips (b. 1835 d. 1893) | Bishop of Massachusetts |
| Brown, Mary (a. 1899) |
| Bullock, William (b. 1798 d. 1874) | hymn writer |
| Burns, James Drummond (b. 1823 d. 1864) | hymn writer |
| Calkin, John Baptiste (b. 1827 d. 1905) | composer, organ |
| Calvin, Jean (b. 1509 d. 1564) | theologian |
| Cannon, Tracy Young Croxall (b. 1879 d. 1961) | organ, music director |
| Careless, George Edward Percy (b. 1839 d. 1932) | composer, conductor |
| Carey, Henry (b. 1689 d. 1743) | composer, dramatist |
| Carr, Benjamin (b. 1768 d. 1831) | publisher, composer |
| Cary, Phoebe (b. 1824 d. 1871) | hymnologist |
| Chamberlain, John M. (b. 1844 d. 1928) | composer |
| Clayson, William (d. 1887) | composer |
| Clayton, William (b. 1814 d. 1879) | hymn writer |
| Clegg, William (b. 1823 d. 1903) | composer |
| Converse, Charles Crozat (b. 1832 d. 1918) | composer, lawyer |
| Cornaby, Hannah Last (b. 1822 d. 1905) | hymn writer |
| Cornelius, Maxwell N. (a. 19th century |
hymn writer |
| Coslet, Joseph (a. 19th century |
composer |
| Cowper, William (b. 1731 d. 1800) | hymn writer |
| Cox, Frances Elizabeth (b. 1812 d. 1897) | hymn writer, translator |
| Crawford, Jane Vilate Romney (b. 1883 d. 1956) | composer, missionary |
| Croft, William (b. 1677 d. 1727) | composer |
| Crosby, Fanny Jane (b. 1820 d. 1915) | poet, hymn writer |
| Cruger, Johannes (b. 1598 d. 1662) | composer, theorist |
| Crystal, James (b. 1839 d. 1924) | hymn writer |
| Curtis, Theodore E. (b. 1872 d. 1957) | hymn writer |
| Dalrymple, A. | hymn writer |
| Davenport, Thomas (b. 1815 d. 1888) | hymn writer |
| Davis, John S. (b. 1813 d. 1882) | hymn writer |
| De Jong, Gerrit (b. 1892) | organ, music educator |
| Dean, Harry A. (b. 1892) | composer |
| Dean, Joseph H. (b. 1855 d. 1947 a. 1880) | composer |
| Denny, Charles (b. 1849 d. 1937) | hymn writer |
| Dibble, Philo (b. 1805 d. 1895) | hymn writer |
| Doane, George Washington (b. 1799 d. 1859 a. 1824) | PDM~ |
| Doddridge, Philip (b. 1702) | psalmodist, trombone |
| Dougall, Hugh (b. 1872) | hymn writer |
| Draper, William Henry (b. 1855 d. 1933) | hymn writer |
| Dungan, Helen (a. 19th century |
hymn writer |
| Dungan, James M. (b. 1852 d. 1925) | composer |
| Durham, Alfred M. (d. 1957) | composer |
| Durham, Lowell M. (b. 1917) | composer, music educator |
| Durham, Thomas (b. 1828) | composer |
| Dykes, John Bacchus (b. 1823 d. 1876) | composer, musician |
| Edwards, Lewis (b. 1809 d. 1887) | hymn writer |
| Ellerton, John (b. 1826 d. 1893) | hymn writer |
| Elvey, George (Job) (b. 1816 d. 1893) | organ, composer |
| Excell, Edwin Othello (b. 1851 d. 1921) | composer, lyricist |
| Fawcett, John (b. 1740 d. 1817) | hymn writer |
| Flemming, Friedrich Ferdinand (b. 1778 d. 1813) | Augenarzt, Komponist |
| Flower, Sara (b. 1805 d. 1848) | poet, hymn composer |
| Fones, Joseph G. (b. 1828) | composer |
| Fowler, William (b. 1830 d. 1865) | church elder, hymnwriter |
| Fox, Arthur Makinson (b. 1863 d. 1949) | choir master, composer |
| Fox, Ruth May (b. 1853 d. 1957 a. 1873) | hymn writer |
| Gabbott, Mabel Jones (b. 1910 a. 1937) | hymn writer |
| Gabriel, Charles Hutchison (b. 1856 d. 1932 a. 1901) | compiler of gospel hymns |
| Gates, B. Cecil (b. 1877 d. 1941) | composer, publisher |
| Gates, Crawford Marion (b. 1921) | music director, composer |
| Geibel, Adam (b. 1855 d. 1933) | composer, organ |
| Giardini, Felice (b. 1716 d. 1796) | composer, violin |
| Goode, William (b. 1762 d. 1816) |
| Gottschalk, Louis Moreau (b. 1829 d. 1869) | composer, musicisti |
| Gould, John Edgar (b. 1822 d. 1875) | publisher, composer |
| Gower, John Henry (b. 1855 d. 1922 a. 1887) | organ, piano |
| Gregg, William C. | hymn writer |
| Griggs, Thomas C. (d. 1903) | composer, musician |
| Gruber, Franz Xaver (b. 1787 d. 1863) | composer, organ |
| Handel, George Friederic (b. 1685) | composer, compositore |
| Hanecy, J.S. | composer |
| Harrison, Edward L.T. (a. 1868) | editor, hymn writer |
| Hastings, Horace Lorenzo (b. 1831 d. 1899) | hymnologist |
| Hastings, Thomas (b. 1784 d. 1872) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Hatton, John (b. 1710 d. 1793) | composer |
| Hawkes, Annie Sherwood (b. 1835 d. 1918) | hymn writer |
| Haydn, Michael [Johann Michael] (b. 1737 d. 1806) | composer, musicisti |
| Heber, Reginald (b. 1783 d. 1826) | hymn writer, vicar |
| Hemans, Felicia Dorothea (b. 1793 d. 1835) | poet |
| Hewitt, Eliza Edmunds Stites (b. 1851 d. 1920) | hymn writer |
| Hibbard, Agnes S. (a. 19th century |
electrical engineer, inventor |
| Hickson, William Edward (b. 1803 d. 1870) | educational writer |
| Hofford, Lowrie M. | hymn writer |
| Holbrook, Joseph Perry (b. 1822 d. 1888) | composer |
| Holden, Oliver (b. 1765 d. 1844) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Holmes, Oliver Wendell (b. 1809 d. 1894) | writer |
| Hopper, Edward (b. 1816 d. 1888) | hymnologist |
| How, William Walsham (b. 1823 d. 1897) | Bishop, hymnist |
| Hughes, John (b. 1873 d. 1932) | hymn composer |
| Huish, Orson Pratt (b. 1851 d. 1932) | composer |
| Jaques, John (b. 1827 d. 1900) | hymn writer |
| Jensen, J. Marinus (b. 1868 d. 1945) | hymn writer |
| Johnson, Joel Hills (b. 1802 d. 1883) |
| Julian, John (b. 1839 d. 1913) | hymn writer |
| Kaillmark, E. (a. 19th century |
composer |
| Keeler, J.J. (a. 20th century |
composer |
| Keith, George (d. 1775 a. 1749-1775) | book seller, publisher |
| Kelly, Thomas (b. 1769 d. 1855) | clarinet, evangelical preacher |
| Ken, Thomas (b. 1637 d. 1710) | hymn writer |
| Key, Francis Scott (b. 1780 d. 1843) | author of the Star-Spangled Banner, lyricist |
| Kidder, Mary Ann Pepper (b. 1820 d. 1905) | hymnologist |
| Kimball, Edward P. (b. 1882 d. 1937) | organ, hymn writer |
| Kipling, Rudyard [Joseph Rudyard] (b. 1865 d. 1936) | author, lyricist |
| Kirkpatrick, William James (b. 1838 d. 1921) | composer, compiler of gospel hymn collections |
| Kleinman, Bertha Eliza Anderson (b. 1877 d. 1971) | hymn writer |
| Kooyman, Frank I. (b. 1880 a. 1905) | hymn writer |
| Koschat, Thomas (b. 1845 d. 1914) | composer, singer |
| Lewis, Freeman (b. 1780 d. 1859) | psalmodist |
| Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (b. 1807 d. 1882) | poet |
| Lowry, Robert (b. 1826 d. 1899) | composer, compiler of Sunday school songs |
| Lucas, James (b. 1762 a. 1726) | composer |
| Lund, Anthony C. (b. 1871 d. 1935) | composer |
| Luther, Martin (b. 1483 d. 1546) | reformer, theologian |
| Lyte, Henry Francis (b. 1793 d. 1847) | hymn writer |
| Macfarlane, John M. (b. 1833 d. 1892) | composer, hymn writer |
| Manookin, Robert P. (b. 1918) | composer |
| Manwaring, George (b. 1854 d. 1889) | hymn writer |
| Marsh, Simeon Bulkley (b. 1798 d. 1875) | singer, composer |
| Mason, Lowell (b. 1792 d. 1872) | composer, anthologist |
| McClellan, John Jasper (b. 1874 d. 1925) | piano, organ |
| McGranahan, James (b. 1840 d. 1907) | singer, hymn compiler |
| McIntyre, Thomas (b. 1833 d. 1914) |
| Medley, Samuel (b. 1738 d. 1799) | minister, hymnwriter |
| Melling, Ellen Knowles (b. 1820 d. 1905) | composer |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix [Jakob Ludwig Felix] (b. 1809) | composer, compositore |
| Merrill, William Pierson (b. 1867 d. 1954) | hymnologist |
| Millard, Harrison (b. 1830 d. 1895) | tenor, composer |
| Mills, William C. | hymn writer |
| Mitton, Samuel B. (b. 1863 d. 1954) | composer |
| Mohr, Josef (b. 1792 d. 1848) | priest, writer |
| Monk, William Henry (b. 1823 d. 1889) | church musician, composer |
| Montgomery, James (b. 1771 d. 1854) | author, director |
| Moore, Thomas (b. 1779 d. 1852) | poet, musician |
| Morris, Robert (b. 1818 d. 1888) | hymn writer |
| Morton, Mary Ann | hymn writer |
| Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (b. 1756 d. 1791) | composer |
| Murray, James Ramsey (b. 1842 d. 1905) | editor, teacher |
| Nageli, Hans Georg (b. 1773) | composer, Komposition |
| Naisbitt, Henry W. | hymn writer |
| Neander, Joachim (b. 1650 d. 1680) | theologian, poet |
| Neibaur, Alexander (b. 1808 d. 1883) | hymn writer |
| Neukomm, Sigismund (b. 1778 d. 1858 a. 19th century |
composer, compositeur |
| Newman, John Henry (b. 1801 d. 1890) | cardinal, hymn writer |
| Newton, John (b. 1725 d. 1807) | cast, hymn writer |
| Nicholson, James (a. 1873) |
| Nicholson, John R. (b. 1839 d. 1909 a. 1866) | hymn writer |
| Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (b. 1808 d. 1877) | poet, composer |
| Oatman, Johnson (b. 1856 d. 1926) | composer, lyricist |
| Onderdonk, Henry Ustic (b. 1789 d. 1858) |
| Page, Mary Judd (b. 1818 d. 1867) | hymn writer |
| Palmer, Horatio Richmond (b. 1834 d. 1907 a. 1861-1874) | composer, musician |
| Parker, Horatio (William) (b. 1863 d. 1919) | composer, music educator |
| Parry, Edwin F. (b. 1850 d. 1935) | composer |
| Parry, Joseph (b. 1841 d. 1903) | composer |
| Partridge, Edward (b. 1793 d. 1840) | hymn writer |
| Payne, John Howard (b. 1792 d. 1841) | actor, diplomat |
| Penrose, Charles W. (b. 1832 d. 1925 a. 1861) | hymn writer |
| Perkins, William Oscar (b. 1831 d. 1902) | composer, musician |
| Peterson, Hans Henry (b. 1835 d. 1909) | composer |
| Phelps, William Wines (b. 1792 d. 1872) | hymn writer |
| Pollard, Josephine (b. 1840 d. 1892) | hymn writer |
| Pratt, Parley Parker (b. 1807 d. 1857) | hymn writer |
| Pritchard, Rowland Hugh (b. 1811 d. 1887) |
| Pyper, George D. (b. 1860 d. 1943) | composer |
| Raffles, Thomas (b. 1788 d. 1863) | hymn writer |
| Raile, Vilate Schofield (b. 1890 d. 1954) | hymn writer |
| Rankin, Jeremiah Eames (b. 1828 d. 1904) | hymn writer |
| Redner, Lewis Henry (b. 1830 d. 1908 a. 1868) | organ, psalmodist |
| Rice, Elihu S. (a. 19th century |
composer |
| Rinckart, Martin (b. 1586 d. 1648) | poet, clergyman |
| Roberts, Daniel Crane (b. 1841 d. 1907) | hymnologist |
| Robertson, Leroy Jasper (b. 1896 d. 1971) | composer |
| Robinson, Robert (b. 1735 d. 1790) | minister, hymn writer |
| Robinson, W.O. (b. 1876) | hymn writer |
| Root, George Frederick (b. 1820 d. 1895) | composer, music educator |
| Rossini, Gioachino (Antonio) (b. 1792 d. 1868) | composer, compositore |
| Rounsefell, Carrie Esther Parker (b. 1861 d. 1930) | composer |
| Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (b. 1712 d. 1778) | philosopher, author |
| Rowe, Ed. M. (b. 1878 d. 1951) | hymn writer |
| Russell, Henry (b. 1812 d. 1900) | composer, piano |
| Schop, Johann (b. 1595 d. 1667) | composer, instrumentalist |
| Schreiner, Alexander (b. 1901 d. 1987) | organ, composer |
| Schutz, Johann Jakob (b. 1640 d. 1690) | lawyer, hymn writer |
| Sears, Edmond Hamilton (b. 1810 d. 1876) | hymnologist |
| Shepherd, William Nathan Budge (b. 1854 d. 1945) | composer |
| Smith, John Stafford (b. 1750 d. 1836) | musicologist, composer |
| Smith, Joseph Fielding (b. 1876) | hymn writer |
| Smith, Lanta Wilson (a. 19th century |
hymn writer |
| Smith, Samuel Francis (b. 1808 d. 1895) | hymnologist |
| Smyth, Adam Craik (b. 1840 d. 1909) | composer |
| Smyth, Richard (b. 1838 d. 1914) | hymn writer |
| Snow, Eliza Roxey (b. 1804 d. 1887) | hymn writer |
| Stephens, Evan (b. 1854 d. 1930) | composer, music director |
| Sullivan, Arthur (Seymour) (b. 1842) | author, composer |
| Sweney, John R. (b. 1837 d. 1899) | evangelistic song leader, composer of gospel hymns |
| Tate, Nahum (b. 1652 d. 1715) | librettista, poet |
| Taylor, John (b. 1808 d. 1887) | hymn writer |
| Taylor, John (b. 1750 d. 1826) | hymn writer |
| Tennyson, Alfred (b. 1809 d. 1892) | composer, lyricist |
| Thomas, Carrie S. (b. 1848 a. 1864) | hymn writer |
| Thomas, Charles John (b. 1832) | composer |
| Thomas, John Rogers (b. 1830 d. 1896 a. 1849) | baritone, composer |
| Thompson, Will Lamartine (b. 1847 d. 1909) | composer, songwriter |
| Tillman, Charles D. (b. 1861 d. 1837) | composer |
| Tomer, William Gould (b. 1833 d. 1896) | composer |
| Toplady, Augustus Montague (b. 1740 d. 1778) | hymn writer |
| Townsend, Joseph L. (b. 1849 d. 1942) | hymn writer |
| Tuckett, Henry A. (a. 20th century |
candy maker, amateur composer |
| Tullidge, John (b. 1806 d. 1874 a. 1863) | composer |
| Turton, W.B. | hymn writer |
| Wade, John Francis (b. -1711 d. 1786) | book seller, music copyist |
| Walford, William (b. 1772 d. 1850 a. 1842) | hymnologist |
| Walker, Charles Lowell (b. 1832 d. 1904 a. 1855) | hymn writer |
| Wallis, James Hearknett (b. 1861 a. 1881) | hymn writer |
| Ward, Samuel Augustus (b. 1848 d. 1903) | psalmodist |
| Warren, George William (b. 1828 d. 1902) | church organist, composer |
| Watts, Isaac (b. 1674 d. 1748) | hymn writer, miscellaneous writer |
| Webb, George James (b. 1803 d. 1887 a. 1835) | editor, composer |
| Webbe, Samuel (b. 1740 d. 1816) | composer, organ |
| Weber, Carl Maria (Friedrich Ernst) (b. 1786) | composer, compositore |
| Wells, Emmeline B. Woodward (b. 1828 d. 1921) | hymn writer |
| Wesley, Charles (b. 1707 d. 1788) | divine, hymn writer |
| Wesley, John Benjamin (b. 1703 d. 1791) | clergyman |
| Wheelock, Cyrus Hubbard (b. 1813 d. 1894) | hymn writer |
| Wheelwright, Lorin F. (b. 1909) | composer |
| Whitney, Orson F. (b. 1855 d. 1931) | hymn writer |
| Widtsoe, John Andreas (b. 1872 d. 1952) | hymn writer |
| Willes, William (b. 1814 d. 1890 a. 1870s) | hymn writer |
| Williams, Aaron (b. 1731 d. 1776) | psalmodist |
| Willis, Richard Storrs (b. 1819 d. 1900) | composer, poet |
| Wingate, Mary B. (b. 1899) | hymn writer |
| Winkworth, Catherine (b. 1827 d. 1878) | hymn writer |
| Woodbury, Isaac Baker (b. 1819 d. 1858) | composer, tunebook compiler |
| Woodmansee, Emily H. (b. 1836 d. 1906 a. 1856) | hymn writer |
| Wyeth, John (b. 1770 d. 1858) | music publisher |