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Des Himmels lichte Höhen

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Wo die Jordansfluten golden Refrain First Line: O des Himmels licht Höhen Used With Tune: [Wo die Jordansfluten golden] Text Sources: L. Perlen

[Wo die Jordansfluten golden]

Appears in 4 hymnals Incipit: 54353 21616 51232 Used With Text: Des Himmels lichte Höhen

[Wo die Jordansfluthen golden]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Fillmore Incipit: 34555 55567 11111 Used With Text: Auf des Himmels lichten Höhen

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Des Himmels lichte Höhen

Hymnal: Sänger-Bote #67 (1900) First Line: Wo die Jordansfluten golden Refrain First Line: O des Himmels licht Höhen Languages: German Tune Title: [Wo die Jordansfluten golden]

Author: C. Röhl Hymnal: Die Perle #61 (1894) First Line: Wo die Jordansfluthen golden Refrain First Line: O des Himmels licht Höhen Languages: German Tune Title: [Wo die Jordansfluthen golden]

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J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Composer of "[Wo die Jordansfluthen golden]" in Die Perle James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Eben E. Rexford

1848 - 1916 Author of "Auf des Himmels lichten Höhen" Rexford, Eben Eugene.M (Johnsburg, New York, July 16, 1848--October 16, 1916, Shiocton, Wisconsin). Horticulturalist and editor of a Wisconsin farm journal. Many of his verses were used to fill empty corners of the journal. He also wrote many books on gardening. Lawrence University (Appleton, Wisc.), Litt.D. Twenty-five years, organist at First Congregational Church, Shiocton. See: Smith, Mary L.P. (1930). Eben E. Rexford; a biographical sketch. Menasha, Wis., George Banta Pub. Co. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives and Gabriel, Charles H. (1916). Singers and Their Songs. Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company. =============== Rexford, Eben Eugene , an American writer, born July 16, 1848, is the author of Nos. 199, 246, 263, 353, in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos), 1878, No. 5, and 456 in the Methodist Sunday School Hymnbook, 1879. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ================ Rexford, E. E. , p. 1587, ii. Additional hymns by this author in common use include:— 1. He saw the wheat fields waiting. Harvest of the World. 2. O where are the reapers. Missions. 3. Rouse up to work that waits for us. Duty. 4. We are sailing o'er an ocean. Life's Vicissitudes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907) ================