Directory of Authors and Composers Resources

Listing of people who wrote hymn tunes or texts.

Resources in This Category

Evangelical Church Music

http://www.hoasm.org/IVC/IVCEvangChurchMusic.html
Brief biographies of early composers of hymn tunes from the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.
German Hymn-Writers of the 1600s

http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/10/24.html
Brief biographies of Philipp Nicolai, Johann Heermann, Paul Gerhardt, and Joachim Neander.
Hymn Writers of the Church

http://ccel.org/n/nutter/hymnwriters/
Brief biographies of ~300 authors included in the 1905 Methodist Hymnal.
Lady Hymn Writers

http://books.google.com/books?id=rcIMAAAAIAAJ
Page images of 1892 book by Emma Raymond Pitman, at Google Books.
Some Hymns and Hymn Writers Representing All who Profess and Call Themselves Christians

http://books.google.com/books?id=7ycPAAAAIAAJ
Page scans of "Short studies in the Episcopal Hymnal", 1907, by William Budd Bodine, at Google Books.

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