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Peter J. Horrobin

b. 1943 Person Name: Horrobin Alterer of "Once in royal David's city" in Complete Mission Praise

Carl G. Seaburg

1922 - 1998 Person Name: Carl G. Seaburg, 1932- Alterer of "Once in Royal David's City" in Singing the Living Tradition

b. 1957 Harmonizer of "IRBY" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal David Schwoebel is Minister of Music/Composer in Residence at Derbyshire Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. He is a graduate of McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Voice and Organ Performance, and a Master of Church Music with an emphasis in Composition. Prior to beginning his ministry at Derbyshire in January 1997, David served churches in his hometown of Belleville, Illinois, Montgomery, Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia. As an ordained minister, David administrates and oversees a comprehensive music ministry of six choral organizations, four handbell choirs, and a 32-piece orchestra. His energetic, hands-on approach to ministry finds him working each week with people of all ages, encouraging and equipping them to discover and develop their varied musical talents and skills. The MICHELLE hymn tune included in the 1991 Baptist Hymnal is named for David's wife, Michelle. The BRITTANY, ASHLEY, AND COURTNEY hymn tunes, named for their three daughters, and the ROSE MARY, HENDRICKS AVENUE, as well as an arrangement of IRBY hymn tunes, are included in the Celebrating Grace hymnal. The tunes COURTNEY and ROSE MARY are also included in Glory to God: The Presbyterian Hymnal. --www.lorenz.com/Composers/

Greg Leavers

Person Name: Leavers Alterer of "Once in royal David's city" in Complete Mission Praise

David Budmen

Harmonizer of "IRBY" in Worship in Song

H. T. Burleigh

1866 - 1949 Person Name: Henry Thacker Burleigh, 1866- Composer of "ALSTON" in The Book of Praise Harry T. Burleigh (b. Erie, PA, 1866; d. Stamford, CT, 1949) began his musical career as a choirboy in St. Paul's Cathedral, Erie, Pennsylvania. He also studied at the National Conservatory of Music, New York City, where he was befriended by Antonín Dvořák and, according to tradition, provided Dvořák with some African American musical themes that became part of Dvořák's New World Symphony. Burleigh composed at least two hundred works but is most remembered for his vocal solo arrangements of African American spirituals. In 1944 Burleigh was honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Bert Polman