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Alberto Taulé

1932 - 2007 Person Name: Alberto Taulé, 1932-2007 Hymnal Number: 580 Author of "El Señor es mi luz" in Himnario Luterano Alberto Taulé (b. Barcelona, Spain, 1932; d. March 24, 2007), a Roman Catholic priest and musician from the culturally distinctive and semi-autonomous Catalunya region of northeastern Spain. Sing! A New Creation

John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of Argyll

1845 - 1914 Person Name: John D. S. Campbell, 1845-1914 Hymnal Number: 597 Author of "A las montañas mis ojos con fe" in Himnario Luterano John George Henry Douglas Sutherland Campbell LLD [Duke of Argyll] United Kingdom 1845-1914. Born in London to George Campbell, Marques of Lorne, and styled Earl of Campbell from birth, he assumed his father's title at the age of 21 months, when his father became 8th Duke of Argyll. He bore that title until age 54. Educated at Edinburgh, Eton College, St. Andrews and at Trinity College, Cambridge, he also went to the National Art Training School. He traveled widely for 10 years throughout North and Central America, writing literature and poetry. In the UK, from 1868, he represented the constituency of Argyllshire as a Liberal member of Parliament in the House of Commons. He made little impression there. He was appointed Lt. Col. Commandant of the 1st Argyll & Bute Artillary Volunteers. He married Queen Victoria's 4th daughter, Princess Louise. They shared interest for art, but the marriage was childless and unhappy, and they spent much time apart. At 33, he was appointed Governor General of Canada. He and Louise made many contributions to Canadian society, especially in the arts and sciences. They encouraged establishment of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, and the National Gallery of Canada, even selecting some of its paintings. Campbell was also involved in completion of the Canadain Pacific Railway and a hospital in British Columbia. He and his wife held lavish parties while in Canada. In 1881, Louise returned to England, and the Lord also in 1883, when he published his memoirs of Canada and Scotland. He was Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle from 1892 to 1914. He died of pneumonia in 1914. He received 4 Knightings and 4 special honors for his accomplishments. Towns, buildings, streets and parks were named for him. John Perry

W. Knapp

Person Name: William Knapp Hymnal Number: 612 Translator of "Alma, cese tu dolor" in Himnario Luterano For William Knapp, 1698-1768, composer, please see this record.

Carla Ostrowski

Person Name: Carla Irina Ostrowski, s.f. Hymnal Number: 695 Author of "Oración de Ofertorio, Así como las espigas" in Himnario Luterano

Mary A. Bachelor

Person Name: Mary A. Bachelor, 1829-1905 Hymnal Number: 633 Author of "Ven, alma que lloras" in Himnario Luterano Bachelor, Mary A. This is the name which Mr. Sankey gives as the writer of "Go, bury thy sorrow," p. 1566, i. He adds that it originally began, "Bury thy sorrow, hide it with care." It was found by P. P. Bliss in a newspaper, and altered by him for musical reasons. See My Life and Sacred Songs, by I. D. Sankey, 1906. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

William F. Rice

Person Name: William F. Rice, s.f. Hymnal Number: 926 Author of "¡Cuánta dicha la del hombre!" in Himnario Luterano

Johann Caspar Bachofen

1695 - 1755 Person Name: Johann Caspar Bachofen, 1695-1755 Hymnal Number: 858 Composer of "BACHOFEN" in Himnario Luterano Johann Caspar Bachofen, born in Zürich in 1692, died there in 1755. Singing-master in the Latin school and cantor of one of the Zürich churches in 1718; director of te Chorherrn-gesellschaft as successor to Albertin; author of an instruction book on music and singing, the "Music Notenbüchlein." Compositions: Musicalisches Halleluja, containing 600 melodies for two and three voices with organ and figured bass (8 eds. down to 1767); Vermehrte Zustaz von Morgen, Abend...Gesängen (1738; Sacred airs ain concert-style for two and three voices given in monthly number (4th ed. 1755); Brocke's Irdisches Vergnügen in Gott, set to music (1,000 pages, 1740); Musicalische Ergetzungen (1755); Psalmen dAvids (8vo, 2d ed., 1759); Für der Sünden der Welt from Brocke's Pssion (1759). His hymns were very popular in Switzerland. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by John Denison Camplin, Jr. and William Foster Apthorp (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888)