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| Short Name: | Henry Lahee |
| Full Name: | Lahee, Henry, 1826-1912 |
| Birth Year: | 1826 |
| Death Year: | 1912 |
Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England.
Died: April 29, 1912, London, England.
Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include:
Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855
Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898
One Hundred Hymn Tunes
Sources:
Frost, p. 680
CS Concordance, pp. 246-47
Nutter, p. 460
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Tunes by Henry Lahee (11) | As | Instances | Incipit |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 2 | 13517 13212 31432 |
| HOLY TRINITY (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 3 | 33432 23211 11433 |
| MAGI (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 3 | 51171 54322 13667 |
| NATIVITY (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 128 | 33355 11321 66217 |
| [Chant] (Lahee 51332) | Lahee (Composer) | 2 | 51332 62117 1 |
| PIETAS (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 2 | 35435 17765 36543 |
| SACRIFICE (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 11 | 34321 17123 443 |
| ST. SERF (Lahee) | H. Lahee (Composer) | 24 | 53311 22561 11233 |
| [They're gathering homeward from every land] (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 2 | 33532 11111 51233 |
| WILD BELLS | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 9 | 11176 54321 17654 |
| WIMBLETON (Lahee) | Henry Lahee (Composer) | 9 | 56511 77321 77666 |
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