Search Results

Mary Stood the Cross Beside

Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: Jews were wrought to cruel madness Used With Tune: [Jews were wrought to cruel madness]

[Jews were wrought to cruel madness]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: F. L. Benjamin Incipit: 55156 55171 25655 Used With Text: Jews were wrought to cruel madness

[Jews were wrought to cruel madness]

Appears in 2 hymnals Incipit: 12334 33213 45654 Used With Text: Mary Stood the Cross Beside

BONAR

Appears in 89 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Calkin, (1827- ) Incipit: 55117 67655 51117 Used With Text: Jews were wrought to cruel madness

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Jews were wrought to cruel madness

Author: Wm. J. Fox Hymnal: Good-Will Songs #59 (1890) Languages: English Tune Title: [Jews were wrought to cruel madness]

Hymnal: Songs of the Kingdom #53 (1882) First Line: Jews were wrought to cruel madness Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: [Jews were wrought to cruel madness]

Jews were wrought to cruel madness

Hymnal: Plymouth Collection #a236 (1863)

View 21 more instances

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

John Baptiste Calkin

1827 - 1905 Person Name: J. B. Calkin, (1827- ) Composer of "BONAR" in Hymnal Amore Dei John Baptiste Calkin United Kingdom 1827-1905. Born in London, he was reared in a musical atmosphere. Studying music under his father, and with three brothers, he became a composer, organist, and music teacher. At 19, he was appointed organist, precenter, and choirmaster at St. Columbia's College, Dublin, Ireland, 1846 to 1853. From 1853 to 1863 we was organist and choirmaster at Woburn Chapel, London. From 1863 to 1868, he was organist of Camden Road Chapel. From 1870 to 1884 he was organist at St. Thomas's Church, Camden Town. In 1883 he became professor at Guildhall School of Music and concentrated on teaching and composing. He was also a professor of music and on the council of Trinity College, London, and a member of the Philharmonic Society (1862). In 1893 he was a fellow of the College of Organists. John and wife, Victoire, had four sons, each following a musical carer. He wrote much music for organ and scored string arrangements, sonatas, duos, etc. He died at Hornsey Rise Gardens. John Perry

William Johnson Fox

1786 - 1864 Person Name: Rev. William J. Fox, 1786-1864 Author of "Jews were wrought to cruel madness" in Hymnal Amore Dei Fox, William Johnson, the son of a small farmer in Suffolk, was born in 1786. As a boy he worked as a weaver, but subsequently spent six years in a bank. He was educated for the ministry under Dr. Pye Smith, at Homerton. His first settlement was with an Orthodox Independent congregation; but he very soon became a Unitarian. In 1817 he settled in London as minister of the Parliament Court Chapel. In 1824 lie removed to a new chapel at South Place, Finsbury, where he remained until 1852. He was a prominent member of the Anti Corn-law League; joined in founding the Westminster Review, and from 1831 to 1836 was owner of the Monthly Repository. From 1847 to 1863 he sat in Parliament as member for Oldham. He died in 1864. In 1841 he published Hymns and Anthems, London, Charles Fox. This, collection contained 150 selections from various authors, including Mrs. Sarah Adams, who was a member of his congregation. He included 13 of his own hymns. A new and enlarged edition of his Hymns, &c, was published in 1873. A memorial edition of his Works was published in 12 vols. in 1865. His hymns which have come into common use outside of his collection include:— 1. A little child in bulrush ark. Moses. 2. Call them from the dead. The Spirits of the Past. 3. Gracious Power, the world pervading. Public Worship. 4. In the plan divine. Perfection of God's designs. 5. Jews were wrought to cruel madness. Good Friday. B. V. M. at the Cross. 6. The sage his cup of hemlock quaffed. Resignation. [Rev. Valentine D. David, B.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)