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Walter Henry Hall
1862 - 1935 Person Name: Walter Henry Hall, 1862- Composer of "DARTMOUTH" in Songs for the Chapel Born: April 25, 1862, London, England.
Died: 1938, New York City.
Buried: Boothbay Harbor, Maine, the location of his summer home.
Hall studied at the Royal Academy of Music for four years under George Macfarren, H. C. Bannister, Charles Steggall, and others. He emigrated to America in 1883, where he was organist and choirmaster at St. Luke’s Church, Germantown, Pennsylvania; St. Peter’s Church, Albany, New York; Church of the Heavenly Rest, New York City; St. James’ Church, New York City; and Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. He founded and conducted the Brooklyn Oratorio Society, and founded the Cathedral Festival Choir. His works include:
Essentials of Choir Boy Training
--www.hymntime.com/tch/
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A. Beer
1874 - 1963 Person Name: A. Beer, 1874- Composer of "MOUNT BEACON" in The Methodist Hymn-Book with Tunes Alfred Beer was born in Great Barr, Birmingham (England), in 1874. He studied piano and was the son of a Methodist minister. One of his headmasters encouraged him to compose tunes to Methodist hymns, five of these appear in the 1933 Methodist Hymn Book
Dianne Shapiro from Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland bu Maggie Humphreys and Robert Evans (Mansell, London: 1997)
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