Previous posts for August 12th are here: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (2019), Joseph Barnby (2020), Michael Kidd (2021), Peter Ostroushko (2022), and Maurice Greene (2023)
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Joseph Barnby (12 August 1838 – 28 January 1896) was an English composer and conductor, especially of hymns and other sacred music.
Sarum Scarum
The hymn “For All the Saints” was sung to the melody Sarum, by the Joseph Barnby until the publication of the English Hymnal in 1906, which used a new setting by Ralph Vaughan Williams which he called Sine Nomine. – adapted from Wikipedia, s.v. “For All the Saints”
As Joseph Barnby’s many hymns
Have faded from the hymnal,
His progeny assail the whims
Of fate as something crim’nal.
A case in point, which surely feeds
The force of their complaints,
Is how Vaughan Williams’s supersedes
His tune “For All the Saints.”
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