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Educated in Manchester and at St John's College Cambridge, he was vicar-choral and sub-chanter of Hereford Cathedral 1741 and later a minor canon there. From 1751-69 he was Vicar of Norton Canon, Herefordshire.
He was a distinguished performer on organ and harpsichord, and wrote much music for these instruments. He is buried in the vestibule to the Lady Chapel of Hereford Cathedral, and there is a memorial tablet to him in the cloisters.
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He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, and was a chorister in the College chapel. After graduating from Keble College he taught at St Edward's School, Oxford 1896-99 and Bilton Grange, Rugby 1899-1901. He studied at Cuddesdon Theological College and, after ordination, was assistant master, chaplain, organist and Director of chapel music at Lancing College, 1902-13; Warden of St Edward's School, Oxford 1913-25; Warden of St Peter's College, Radley 1925-37; Canon and Precentor of Salisbury Cathedral 1937-47. With Geoffrey Shaw he was joint music editor of The Public School Hymn Book 1919.
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He was a critic and historian, who worked in Berlin 1843-47 and then in Munich. In 1845 he published with Ludwig Erk a collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century chorales, and in 1847 his own Vierstimmiges Choralbuch zu Kirchen und Hausgebrauch. This was a book of four-part tunes for the second edition of the hymn-book published by his friend Baron von Bunsen in the previous year, and is the source of the tunes composed or adapted by Filitz.
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His father was Professor of Medicine at Aberdeen University, and he himself was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh. Until the age of 46 he worked in various parts of the country as a naval architect. He then decided to devote himself wholly to music; after a year at the Royal College of Music studying under Vaughan Williams, and a further year at Jordanhill College of Education, Glasgow, he was appointed teacher of class singing at the Royal Academy, Irvine, Ayrshire 1930-47.
He published about forty tunes in various hymnals, two cantatas, part-songs, anthems, choral works and instrumental pieces.
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He was educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, at the Royal School of Church Music there, and at Durham University. He has held posts of organist at Chingford Parish Church 1952-58; All Saints', Margaret Street, London 1958-68; Croydon Parish Church 1968-78; St Mary's, Primrose Hill 1978-80; and St Alban's, Holborn since 1980.
He was Tutor and Warden at the Royal School of Church Music 1968-93, and served on the editorial committee for the New English Hymnal 1986.
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He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, and Christ Church, Oxford. He taught harmony and music history at the Royal Academy of Music 1961-69; was Senior Community Relations Officer in Leeds 1970-74; and was Head of the Performing Arts Department, Harrogate College of Arts 1975-81. In 1981 he entered the Methodist ministry.
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He graduated from Queen's College, Cambridge in 1700; became a priest vicar-choral of Loncoln in 1704 and Canon of Worcester in 1714. From 1715 he was a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal; and in 1719 became reader in Whitehall Chapel and a minor canon of Westminster Abbey. The Abbey chapter books record that in 1725 fifteen guineas were paid from Abbey funds to release him from imprisonment for debt.
He has often been credited with originating the double chant.
He is buried in the south cloisters of the Abbey.
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b. Waterloo, Liverpool: 28 November 1919
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He was educated at the Blue Coat School, Liverpool; and then studied music at Colchester Institute 1975-78. He trained at Chichester Theological College for the Anglican priesthood; and, after a curacy at St Margaret's, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, was a minor canon and Succentor at St George's Chapel Windsor 1984-86. He was Precentor and Chaplain of Chelmsford Cathedral 1986-90 and is now (1997) Chaplain of Lancing College.
He frequently lectures on music and liturgy and has published many psalm settings.
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(See also Julian pp.383b-384a)
For a biographical note by A.S.Walpole, which precedes his selection of Latin texts from Fortunatus in Early Latin Hymns (edited by A.J.Mason, Cambridge Patristic Texts, C.U.P. 1922), click here > > .
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[ Biographical note by James Mearns, in Julian p.386 (slightly shortened and adapted) ]
His father (also Johann) and his uncle-by-marriage Adam Tielkau were respectively Councillor and Town Judge at Guben, where young Johann was born. After his father's death in 1620, he was adopted by his uncle and sent to schools at Guben, Cottbus, Stettin and Thorn. On June 28, 1638, he matriculated as a law student at the University of K”nigsberg, the only German University left undisturbed by the Thirty Years' War. Here his religious spirit, his love of nature, and his friendship with such as Simon Dach and Heinrich Held, preserved him from sharing in the excesses of his fellow-students.
At that time Guben frequently suffered from the presence of Swedish and Saxon troops; and at the urgent request of his mother Franck returned to Guben at Easter 1640 in order to be near her. In May 1645 he commenced practice as a lawyer, becoming a burgess in 1648 and burgomaster in 1661. In 1671 he was appointed as the deputy from Guben to the Landtag (Diet) of Lower Lusatia.
He wrote a number of secular poems, those written before 1649 being much the best; the later poems became more affected and artificial, long-winded and full of classical allusions. As a hymn-writer, however, he holds a high rank, and is distinguished for unfeigned and firm faith, deep earnestness, finished form, and a noble and pithy simplicity of expression. His hymns lack the objectivity and congregational character of the older German hymns, and have a more personal and individual tone, with a longing for the inward and mystical union of Christ with the soul (as in his `Jesu, meine Freude'). He stands in close relationship with Gerhardt, sometimes more soaring and occasionally more profound, but neither so natural nor so suited for popular comprehension or church use.
His hymns appeared mostly in the works of his friends, including Johann Crüger; but a collection of 110 hymns was published as Geistiches Sion at Guben in 1674, three years before his death.
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He served as court musician to the Margrave of Ansbach and was director of the music there 1673-79. Having committed manslaughter in a fit of jealousy he fled to Hamburg, where in the next seven years he composed 14 operas. He is said to have gone to Spain in 1688; but he was in London c.1690 where he gave concerts with Robert King
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He is a minister of the Church of Scotland and a member of the Iona Community. For a time he was on the staff of the World Council of Churches at Geneva, as Executive Secretary on Laity and Studies; and for nine years was Dean and Head of the Department of Mission at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham.
He was closely involved in the Scottish Churches' Consultation on Music based at Dunblane in the 1960s, while he was Warden of the Scottish Churches House, and played an leading part in the production of Dunblane Praises .
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[ see also an extended section on "Freylinghausen in English Hymn-books" - click here > > . ]
He entered Jena University in 1689 and, attracted by the preaching of the Pietist leaders A.H.Franke and J.J.Breithaupt, moved to Erfurt in 1691 and to Halle in 1692. In 1693 he returned briefly to Gandersheim, working as a private tutor; but after ordination in 1695 became Franke's assistant and married his daughter in 1715. On Franke's death in 1727 he suceeded him as pastor of St Ulrich's, Halle, and as director of Franke's schools and orphanage. During the last ten years of his life he suffered a series of paralytic strokes.
The Geistriches Gesangbuch which he edited appeared in several instalments and was a major source for later hymn-books; a combined and augmented edition was issued in 1741 (after Freylinghausen's death), edited by A.H.Franke's son G.W.Franke. For details of hymns and tunes in the Gesangbuch which have appeared in English hymn-books, click here > > .
For a slightly longer biography in Julian, click here > > .
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Among Freylinghausen's non-hymn publications is a treatise entitled Compendium, oder kurtzer Begriff der ganzen Christlichen Lehre in 34 Articuln, nebst einer summarischen Vorstellung der göttlichen Ordnung des Heyls, in Fragen und Antwort . . . entworfen . . . This went through several editions, the 10th edition being published at Halle in 1733. (A copy of this edition is in the British Library, London.) It was translated into English as An Abstractof the Whole Doctrine of the Christian Religion, With Observations . . . &c., by J. Planta "From a manuscript in her Majesty's possession", with fullsome dedication to "Her Majesty" (i.e. Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III), which was, nevertheless, somewhat dismissive of the author, whom the translator described as "a foreign Divine, for [whose opinions] the Editor does not hold himself in any degree responsible".
The first edition of the English version was dated 1804; for the title page and Preface to the second edition (1805), click here > > . The British Library has copies of both these English editions.
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He studied at Birmingham University and the Royal Academy of Music, and was a member of the Sartori string quartet resident at Sussex University 1970-71 and Lancaster University 1971-75.
He taught violin and general music in Cumbria schools 1974-94; his church posts included Director of Music at St Thomas's Church Lancaster 1976-83. He has composed much music for church and educational use.
He was the principal music editor of the first edition of Mission Praise 1983, and assistant editor and a contributor to Songifts 1986.
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He was a music critic and historian, whose interest in music was stimulated by the influence of C.V.Stanford during his (F-M's) student days at Trinity College Cambridge. He contributed to the early editions of Grove's Dictionary of Music (1881 onwards), and was responsible for editing the second edition, 1904-1911.) In 1902 he compiled Vol.4 of the Oxford History of Music ("The Age of Bach and Handel"), subsequently revising it for its second edition in 1931.
With Lucy Broadwood he helped to document the many rediscoveries of English Folk Songs in the movement that flourished at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries.
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He was brought up in Ireland as a Presbyterian, but was influenced by D.L.Moody, during a visit to Belfast by the latter, towards an evangelical style of faith. On moving to London in 1875 he became a member of the Baptist Metropolitan Tabernacle, and later studied at Spurgeon's College, becoming a close friend of C.H.Spurgeon himself. In 1912 he became Home Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society, and in 1917 was President of the Baptist Union.
He wrote several hymns, but the one listed below is the only one known to have survived in 20th century hymn-books.
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