SAINTS OF GOD (Sullivan)

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SAINTS OF GOD (Sullivan)

Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Published in 9 hymnals

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	THOU HIDDEN SOURCE OF CALM REPOSE (Trini…

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:	SAINTS OF GOD (Sullivan)
Composer:	Arthur Sullivan
Meter:	8.8.8.8.8.8
Incipit:	35555 17665 43522
Key:	D Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

Ye Fair Green Hills of Galilee

The Saints of God! Their Conflict Past

O Thou in Whom Thy saints repose

O Thou in Whom Thy saints repose,
When life's brief conflict finds its close;
Behold us met before Thy face
To hallow this their resting-place:
Safe are the souls whom Thou dost keep;
And safely here their dust shall sleep.

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