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CLARENCE (Sullivan)

CLARENCE (Sullivan)

Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
Published in 18 hymnals


Composer: Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Seymour Sullivan (b Lambeth, London. England. 1842; d. Westminster, London, 1900) was born of an Italian mother and an Irish father who was an army band­master and a professor of music. Sullivan entered the Chapel Royal as a chorister in 1854. He was elected as the first Mendelssohn scholar in 1856, when he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He also studied at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858-1861) and in 1866 was appointed professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music. Early in his career Sullivan composed oratorios and music for some Shakespeare plays. However, he is best known for writing the music for lyrics by William S. Gilbert, which produced popular operettas such as H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: CLARENCE (Sullivan)
Composer: Arthur Sullivan (1874)
Meter: 7.7.7.7
Incipit: 11123 21222 34323
Key: e minor
Copyright: Public Domain
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Texts

The Seasons

God Be Merciful to Me

It Is Finished

"It is finished"--all the pain,
All the sorrow, all the strain;
Death has freed the Lord of life
From the burden of His strife.

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Timeline

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Instances

Instances (1 - 1 of 1)

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #114

Church Hymnal, Mennonite #114
Include 17 pre-1979 instances
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