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Guide us, Lord, a pilgrim band

Appears in 5 hymnals

HERLAD ANGELS

Appears in 667 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Guide us, Lord, a pilgrim band

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Guide us, Lord, a pilgrim band

Author: Anon. Hymnal: Hymnal, Amore Dei. Rev. ed. #a193 (1903) Languages: English

Guide us, Lord! a pilgrim band

Hymnal: Hymns of the Spirit #95 (1864) Languages: English

Guide us, Lord, a pilgrim band

Author: Anon. Hymnal: Hymnal, Amore Dei #193 (1890) Languages: English

1809 - 1847 Person Name: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Composer of "HERLAD ANGELS" in Hymnal Amore Dei Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes. Bert Polman

Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "Guide us, Lord, a pilgrim band" in Hymnal Amore Dei 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.