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Gerald Manning

b. 1943 Person Name: Gerald Manning (1943-) Composer (descant) of "ORIEL" in Common Praise (1998)

Charles Steggall

1826 - 1905 Person Name: C. Steggall Composer of "ST. LAWRENCE" in Gloria Deo

1659 - 1695 Person Name: Henry Purcell 1659-95 Composer of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Praise! psalms hymns and songs for Christian worship Henry Purcell (b. Westminster, London, England, 1659; d. Westminster, 1695), was perhaps the greatest English composer who ever lived, though he only lived to the age of thirty-six. Purcell's first piece was published at age eight when he was also a chorister in the Chapel Royal. When his voice changed in 1673, he was appointed assistant to John Hingston, who built chamber organs and maintained the king's instruments. In 1674 Purcell began tuning the Westminster Abbey organ and was paid to copy organ music. Given the position of composer for the violins in 1677, he also became organist at Westminster Abbey in 1679 (at age twenty) and succeeded Hingston as maintainer of the king's instruments (1683). Purcell composed music for the theater (Dido and Aeneas, c. 1689) and for keyboards, provided music for royal coronations and other ceremonies, and wrote a substantial body of church music, including eighteen full anthems and fifty-six verse anthems. Bert Polman

Alan Gray

1855 - 1935 Person Name: A. Gray (1855-1935) Composer (descant) of "ORIEL" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Born: December 23, 1855, York, England. Died: September 27, 1935, Cambridge, England. Buried: Trinity College, Cambridge, England. Alan Gray (23 December 1855, York – 27 September 1935, Cambridge) was a British organist and composer. Born in York, he attended St Peter's School in York and Trinity College, Cambridge. From 1883 until 1893 he was Director of Music at Wellington College. In 1893 he returned to Cambridge to be organist at Trinity College, and remained organist there until 1930. Among his compositions are liturgical music for Morning and Evening Prayer and the Office of Holy Communion for use in the Church of England according to the Book of Common Prayer, including an Evening Service in f minor, a setting of Holy Communion in G, several anthems, including 'What are these that glow from afar?', and a collection of descants to various hymn tunes, several of which are still in use today (Common Praise (2000) includes four). He also composed a number of items for organ, for violin solo, and for voice and orchestra to religious and secular texts. --en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

J. H. Cornell

1828 - 1894 Person Name: Jno. Henry Cornell Composer of "[To the Name of our Salvation]" in The New Alleluia An organist for St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity Church, Cornell compiled the Congregational Tune Book in 1872. --www.hymntime.com/tch/