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[We know not why dark clouds overcast]

[We know not why dark clouds overcast]

Composer: Powell G. Fithian
Published in 1 hymnal


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Powell G. Fithian

Born: April 30, 1861, Greenwich Township (now Gibbstown), New Jersey. Fithian was music director for the public schools in Camden, New Jersey. He and his wife Julia were both listed in the 1910 and 1920 census, but his wife appears alone in the 1930 census. Powell’s works include: Songs of the Mercy Seat, with George Hugg (Methodist Episcopal Book Room, 1899) Songs for Work and Worship, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Dayton, Ohio: Lorenz & Company, 1900) Exalted Praise, with Howard Entwisle (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1901) Heavenly Sunlight, with Howard Entwisle & Adam Geibel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: MacCalla & Company, 1902) The Fithian Music Primer (New York: American Book Com… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [We know not why dark clouds overcast]
Composer: Powell G. Fithian
Incipit: 33353 32234 45243
Copyright: Public Domain

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Songs for Work and Worship #119

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