Hail to Thee our risen King. [Easter.] Appeared in the Irvingite Hymns for the Use of the, Churches, 1864, in 6 stanza of 4 lines, and signed "S. A., 1863.” It was repeated in the 2nd edition of the same, 1871, and is also found in several American collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
An early form of the tune DIX was composed by Conrad Kocher (b. Ditzingen, Wurttemberg, Germany, 1786; d. Stuttgart, Germany, 1872). Trained as a teacher, Kocher moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, to work as a tutor at the age of seventeen. But his love for the music of Haydn and Mozart impelled him t…
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