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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Scripture: Psalm 40:1-4 Harmonizer of "AUS TIEFER NOT" in Glory to God Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

José Luis Castillo

b. 1958 Person Name: José Luis Castillo, n. 1958 Scripture: Psalm 40:2 Composer of "[Aquí estoy, Señor]" in Flor y Canto (3rd ed.)

Tony Rubi

b. 1949 Person Name: Tony Rubi, n. 1949 Scripture: Psalm 40:2 Composer of "[Aquí estoy, Señor]" in Flor y Canto (3rd ed.)

John Hopkins

1470 - 1570 Person Name: J. H. Scripture: Psalm 40 Author of "Expectans expectavi" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes

Adolfo Robleto

1917 - 1994 Scripture: Psalm 40:3 Translator of "Cristo Es Mi Canción" in Himnario Bautista Born: January 4, 1917, Managua, Nicaragua. Died: April 1, 1994, Texas. Pseudonyms: Daniel R. Diaz Pablo Filós Robleto attended the Colegio Bautista in Managua (graduated 1940), and the Baptist Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, and pastored churches in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Texas. He also directed the Department of Administration of Churches and Pastoral Leadership, edited The Christian Home for the Casa Bautista de Publicaciones, and translated about 200 hymns from English to Spanish. His works include: 501 Ilustraciones Nuevas Doctrina Cristiana Dramas y Poemas para Días Especiales Que Hacer En Tiempos de Cri Sermones para el Nuevo Milenio --www.hymntime.com/tch/

Ricky Manalo

Person Name: Ricky Manalo, CSP, b. 1965 Scripture: Psalm 40:8-9 Author (refrain) of "O Word of God" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

Oscar López Marroquín

b. 1937 Person Name: Oscar López M. Scripture: Psalm 40:1-5 Adapter (coro) of "Me salvó, me perdonó" in Celebremos Su Gloria

Don E. Saliers

b. 1937 Scripture: Psalm 40:1-11 Composer of "[O Lord, do not withhold your mercy]" in The United Methodist Hymnal

Leopold Dix

Person Name: Leopold L. Dix Scripture: Psalm 40 Arranger of "FINGAL" in Trinity Psalter Hymnal

Craig S. Kingsbury

b. 1952 Person Name: Craig Kingsbury, b. 1952 Scripture: Psalm 40:8-9 Arranger (choral) of "[Here I am, O Lord, my God]" in Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.)

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