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ST. LOUIS (Gilbert)

Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Bond Gilbert Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 32156 66517 21765

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness

Appears in 411 hymnals Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS

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O'er the gloomy hills of darkness

Hymnal: Church Hymnal #260 (1877) Languages: English Tune Title: ST. LOUIS

O'er the gloomy hills of darkness

Hymnal: Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church with Music (Gilbert & Goodrich) #288 (1883) Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.7 Topics: Missions and Charities Languages: English Tune Title: ST. LOUIS

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Walter Bond Gilbert

1829 - 1910 Person Name: W. B. Gilbert, Mus. Bac. Composer of "ST. LOUIS" in Church Hymnal Walter Bond Gilbert DMus United Kingdom 1829-1910. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he studied music under Alfred Angel, Samuel Wesley and Henry Bishop. He attended New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto, Canada. He was organist in Devon at Topsham in 1847, Bideford in 1849, Kent at Tonbridge in 1854, Old Colliegiate Church, Maidstone in 1859, Lee in 1866, Boston, Lincolnshirein 1868, and Trinity Chapel in New York City in 1869-1897. He taught music at Tonbridge School, helped found the College of Organists, edited the America Episcopal Hymnal, and wrote a number of monographs, including “Antiquities of Maidstone”. He continued to write church music, producing services, oratorios (including “The Restoration of Israel and St. John, 1857), organ works, and anthems. He died at Headington, Oxford, England. John Perry