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Phoebe Palmer Knapp

1839 - 1908 Person Name: Mrs. Joseph F. Knapp Composer of "[Oh, when I shall sweep thro' the gates]" in The Great Awakening As a young girl Phoebe Palmer Knapp (b. New York, NY, 1839; d. Poland Springs, ME, 1908) displayed great musical talent; she composed and sang children’s song at an early age. The daughter of the Methodist evangelist Walter C. Palmer, she was married to John Fairfield Knapp at the age of sixteen. Her husband was a founder of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and after his death, she shared her considerable inherited wealth with various charitable organizations. She composed over five hundred gospel songs, of which the tunes for “Blessed Assurance” and “Open the Gates of the Temple” are still popular today. Bert Polman

Ernst Gebhardt

1832 - 1899 Person Name: E. Gebhardt Author of "Willkommen" in Frohe Lieder und Brüder-Harfe

Mrs. J. F. Knapp

Composer of "[O when I shall sweep through the gates]" in The Zion Songster Nos. 1 and 2 Combined See Knapp, Phoebe Palmer, 1839-1908

Phoebe Palmer

1807 - 1874 Author of "Welcome to Glory" in The Great Awakening Palmer, Phoebe, an American Methodist, b. 1807, and d. in 1874, wrote "Blessed Bible! how I love thee" (Holy Scriptures), and “O! when shall I sweep through the gates" (Heaven Anticipated). The latter is in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1878. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

Anonymous

Person Name: Anonim Author of "Darul Sufletesc" in The Cyber Hymnal 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.