S S Wesley
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Samuel Sebastian Wesley, grandson of hymn-writer Charles Wesley and son of Sebastian Wesley, a celebrated organist though socially ostracised for leaving his wife for a servant, served four cathedrals and provided original and stimulating music for services. His verse anthem Blessed be the God and Father has precedents beyond his own earlier works in the… Read more
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In 1866 one Samuel Stone, curate at Windsor, published Lyra Fidelium, twelve hymns on the articles of the Apostle’s Creed, usually understood to have been in response to dissention in the Church of South Africa about the teachings of a Bishop J W Colenso. Of this set, the most famous and most often still sung… Read more
Theology in Music 