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O Father, by thy holy will

Author: Rev. C. T. Brooks Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: MISERICORDIA

MISERICORDIA

Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mendelssohn Incipit: 54331 76623 46531 Used With Text: O Father, by thy holy will

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O Father, by thy holy will

Author: O. T. Brooks Hymnal: The School Hymn Book #d47 (1889)

O Father, by thy holy will

Author: Rev. C. T. Brooks Hymnal: The Carol #126a (1886) Languages: English Tune Title: MISERICORDIA

O Father! by Thy holy will

Author: Rev. C. T. Brooks Hymnal: Sunday School Service Book and Hymnal #167 (1885) Languages: English Tune Title: IN MEMORIAM

1809 - 1847 Person Name: Mendelssohn Composer of "MISERICORDIA" in The Carol Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Charles T. Brooks

1813 - 1883 Person Name: Rev. C. T. Brooks Author of "O Father, by thy holy will" in The Carol Brooks, Charles Timothy. An American Unitarian Minister, born at Salem, Mass., June 20, 1813, and graduated at Harvard, 1832, and the Divinity School, Cambridge, U.S., 1835. In that year he began his ministry at Nahant, subsequently preaching at Bangor and Augusta (Maine), Windsor (Vermont). In 1837 he became pastor of Newport, Rhode Island, and retained the same charge until 1871, when he resigned through ill-health. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================ Brooks, C. T. (p. 184, i,). He died at Newport, Rhode Island, June 14, 1883. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)