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Angels, ever bright and fair, take O take me to your care

Appears in 7 hymnals

[Angels ever bright and fair]

Appears in 84 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Händel Incipit: 51176 56232 43215 Used With Text: Angels ever Bright and Fair

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Angels, ever bright and fair, take O take me to your care

Hymnal: Selected Hymns for the Use of Children in Families or Sunday School #d7 (1833)

Angels, ever bright and fair, take O take me to your care

Hymnal: The Chapel Hymn Book (4th ed.) #d25 (1842)

Angels ever Bright and Fair

Hymnal: Hymns That Every Child Should Know #21 (1907) Languages: English Tune Title: [Angels ever bright and fair]

1685 - 1759 Person Name: Händel Composer of "[Angels ever bright and fair]" in Hymns That Every Child Should Know George Frideric Handel (b. Halle, Germany, 1685; d. London, England, 1759) became a musician and composer despite objections from his father, who wanted him to become a lawyer. Handel studied music with Zachau, organist at the Halle Cathedral, and became an accomplished violinist and keyboard performer. He traveled and studied in Italy for some time and then settled permanently in England in 1713. Although he wrote a large number of instrumental works, he is known mainly for his Italian operas, oratorios (including Messiah, 1741), various anthems for church and royal festivities, and organ concertos, which he interpolated into his oratorio performances. He composed only three hymn tunes, one of which (GOPSAL) still appears in some modern hymnals. A number of hymnal editors, including Lowell Mason, took themes from some of Handel's oratorios and turned them into hymn tunes; ANTIOCH is one example, long associated with “Joy to the World.” Bert Polman

Anonymous

Author of "Angels ever bright and fair" in A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship. (3rd ed.) In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.