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In the desert all alone

Author: Mrs. Mitchell Appears in 2 hymnals Used With Tune: THE DESERT

LIGURIA OR ST. AMBROSE

Appears in 128 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smart Incipit: 11732 12113 43453 Used With Text: In the desert all alone

THE DESERT

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Florence Bruce Tune Key: c minor Incipit: 12321 71554 35717 Used With Text: In the desert all alone

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In the desert all alone

Author: Mrs. Mitchell Hymnal: The Children's Hymn Book #369a (1881) Languages: English Tune Title: THE DESERT

In the desert all alone

Author: Mrs. Mitchell Hymnal: The Children's Hymn Book #369b (1881) Languages: English Tune Title: LIGURIA OR ST. AMBROSE

1813 - 1879 Person Name: Henry Smart Harmonizer of "LIGURIA OR ST. AMBROSE" in The Children's Hymn Book Henry Smart (b. Marylebone, London, England, 1813; d. Hampstead, London, 1879), a capable composer of church music who wrote some very fine hymn tunes (REGENT SQUARE, 354, is the best-known). Smart gave up a career in the legal profession for one in music. Although largely self taught, he became proficient in organ playing and composition, and he was a music teacher and critic. Organist in a number of London churches, including St. Luke's, Old Street (1844-1864), and St. Pancras (1864-1869), Smart was famous for his extemporizations and for his accompaniment of congregational singing. He became completely blind at the age of fifty-two, but his remarkable memory enabled him to continue playing the organ. Fascinated by organs as a youth, Smart designed organs for important places such as St. Andrew Hall in Glasgow and the Town Hall in Leeds. He composed an opera, oratorios, part-songs, some instrumental music, and many hymn tunes, as well as a large number of works for organ and choir. He edited the Choralebook (1858), the English Presbyterian Psalms and Hymns for Divine Worship (1867), and the Scottish Presbyterian Hymnal (1875). Some of his hymn tunes were first published in Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861). Bert Polman

Elizabeth Harcourt Mitchell

b. 1833 Person Name: Mrs. Mitchell Author of "In the desert all alone" in The Children's Hymn Book Mitchell, Elizabeth Harcourt, née Rolls, daughter of John E. W. Rolls, of the Hendre, Monmouth, was b. Dec. 15, 1833, and married to F. J. Mitchell, of Llanfrechfa Grange, Caerleon, Monmouthshire, in 1860. Mrs. Mitchell's prose works, published by Masters, Hayes, and the Society from Promoting Christian Knowledge number about 20. Her poetical works are First Fruits, Wild Thyme, The Ballad of the Battle of Trafalgar. To Mrs. Brock's Children's Hymn Book, 1881, she contributed the following:— 1. As Hebrew children strewed their palms. Church Decorators. 2. In the desert all alone. St. John Baptist. 3. King of glory, Saviour dear. Martyrs. 4. Come to the Manger in Bethlehem. Christmas Carol. 5. Good news from the hills of Judea. Christmas Carol. To the Altar Hymnal, 1884, in addition to translations from the Latin (see Index of Authors and Translators), Mrs. Mitchell contributed the following original hymns:— 6. As Abel brought the lamb to Thee. Harvest. 7. Jesus, glorious Prince of angels. Processional for St, Michael and All Angels. 8. Lamb most holy, King most lowly. All Saints. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)