Reginald Heber

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Life

Born: 21 Ap­ril 1783, Ma­lpas, Che­shire, Eng­land

Died: 3 Ap­ril 1826, Tri­chin­o­po­ly (Tir­u­chir­ap­pal­li), Ta­mil Na­du, In­dia

Biography:

English Bishop, missionary and author, whose poetry has been set by many composers.

Settings of his poetic works

• Bread of the world in mercy broken (Louis Bourgeois)
• Evening Hymn, Op. 54, No. 6 (Dudley Buck)
• Funeral Thoughts (Tim Risher)
• Hail the blest morn (Star in the East) (William Walker)
• Holy, Holy, Holy (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
• Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty (John Bacchus Dykes)
• Lo! star-led chiefs (William Crotch)
• Nutfield (William H. Monk)
• O God, the Son eternal (Samuel Sebastian Wesley)
• O most merciful (Charles Wood)
• The Son of God goes forth to war (Arthur Sullivan)
• Thou palsied earth (John Wall Callcott)
• Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Claude Goudimel)
• When through the torn sail (Gustav Stolpe)

Publications

• Palestine

External links

• View Wikipedia article for Reginald Heber.
• Cyber Hymnal™ article