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Fast falls the night around us

Author: William J. Dawson Appears in 3 hymnals

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ST. ALPHEGE

Appears in 146 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry J. Gauntlett Incipit: 13451 71171 43213 Used With Text: Fast falls the night around us

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Fast falls the night around us

Author: W. J. Dawson Hymnal: The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #77 (1922) Languages: English Tune Title: ST. ALPHEGE

Fast falls the night around us

Author: William J. Dawson Hymnal: The American Hymnal for Chapel Service #d79 (1925) Languages: English

Fast falls the night around us

Author: William J. Dawson Hymnal: The American Hymnal #d119 (1919) Languages: English

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Henry J. Gauntlett

1805 - 1876 Composer of "ST. ALPHEGE" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Henry J. Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, July 9, 1805; d. London, England, February 21, 1876) When he was nine years old, Henry John Gauntlett (b. Wellington, Shropshire, England, 1805; d. Kensington, London, England, 1876) became organist at his father's church in Olney, Buckinghamshire. At his father's insistence he studied law, practicing it until 1844, after which he chose to devote the rest of his life to music. He was an organist in various churches in the London area and became an important figure in the history of British pipe organs. A designer of organs for William Hill's company, Gauntlett extend­ed the organ pedal range and in 1851 took out a patent on electric action for organs. Felix Mendelssohn chose him to play the organ part at the first performance of Elijah in Birmingham, England, in 1846. Gauntlett is said to have composed some ten thousand hymn tunes, most of which have been forgotten. Also a supporter of the use of plainchant in the church, Gauntlett published the Gregorian Hymnal of Matins and Evensong (1844). Bert Polman

W. J. Dawson

1854 - 1928 Author of "Fast falls the night around us" in The American Hymnal for Chapel Service Born: No­vem­ber 21, 1854, Tow­ces­ter, North­amp­ton, Eng­land. Son of Will­iam James and Susan Wall­er Daw­son, Will­iam was ed­u­cat­ed at Dids­bu­ry Col­lege, Man­ches­ter, and or­dained a Wes­ley­an min­is­ter in 1875. He mar­ried Jane Pow­ell of Lowes­toft in 1879, and served in var­i­ous lo­ca­tions un­til as­sum­ing the pas­tor­ate of High­bury Quad­rant Con­gre­ga­tion­al Church, Lon­don, in 1892. The pre­vi­ous year, he was one of the Eng­lish del­e­gates to the Meth­od­ist Ecu­men­i­cal Coun­cil in Wash­ing­ton, DC. He liked Amer­i­ca so much that he em­i­grat­ed there in 1905, join­ing the Presbyterians and first serv­ing at the First Church in New­ark, New Jer­sey. His works in­clude: A Vis­ion of Souls, 1884 Question and Vi­sion, 1886 A Thresho­ld of Man­hood, 1889 Makers of Eng­lish, 1889 Makers of Eng­lish Prose, 1899 The Man Christ Je­sus, 1901 The Re­proach of Christ, 1903 The Quest of the Sim­ple Life, 1903 Makers of Eng­lish Fic­tion, 1905 The Em­pire of Love, 1907 America, and Other Po­ems, 1912 The Amer­i­can Hym­nal, 1913 Robert Shen­stone, a no­vel, 1917 The Fa­ther of a Sol­dier, 1917 The Au­to­bi­o­graphy of a Mind, 1925 --www.hymntime.com/tch/
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