Tune: WESTMINSTER (Turle)

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WESTMINSTER (Turle)

Composer: James Turle (1835)
Published in 93 hymnals

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Piano/Organ
	Go Forth and Preach the Gospel - I Sing…

Choral
	Immortal Love, Forever Full

Instrumental
	Jerusalem, My Happy Home

Composer: James Turle

TURLE, JAMES (1802–1882), organist and composer, son of James Turle, an amateur 'cello-player, was born at Taunton, Somerset, on 5 March 1802. From July 1810 to December 1813 he was a chorister at Wells Cathedral under Dodd Perkins, the organist. At the age of eleven he came to London, and was articled to John Jeremiah Goss, but he was largely self-taught. He had an excellent voice and frequently sang in public. John Goss [q. v.], his master's nephew, was his fellow student, and thus the future organists of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey were pupils together. Turle was organist of Christ Church, Surrey (Blackfriars Road), 1819–1829, and of St. James's, Bermondsey, 1829–31. His connection with Westminster Abbey began in 181… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	WESTMINSTER (Turle)
Composer:	James Turle (1835)
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Incipit:	35511 76553 71255
Key:	B♭ Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Texts

My God, How Wonderful Thou Art

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